The Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU

Dear Secretary of State,

I am writing on behalf of our member care providers to express their anger in the way that Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment has been handled by the Government.

The West Midlands Care Association and its members have been fully committed to COVID 19 vaccination within the sector, despite the operational problems this has caused.

As you can imagine, after having to lose valued members of staff in care homes and with a similar prospect looming for our home care providers, our members were dismayed at this weeks announcement.  Although this decision will benefit the sector in the short term, it has caused unneeded apprehension and confusion.

Throughout the pandemic, Adult Social Care Providers have felt like second class citizens compared to the NHS and this announcement feels once again like the Government has caved to the interests of the Health Service despite imposing pressures on Adult Social Care who had no say in the matter.

We call upon the Government to apologise to all those Adult Social Care staff who either lost their jobs or left the sector feeling that they were no longer valued, and to the providers themselves who have had to invest time and money to implement a policy which has contributed to the greatest staffing crisis we’ve ever seen in Adult Social Care.

Yours sincerely

Keiron Broadbent

Chief Executive