Allow care agency workers to receive the £500 bonus payment in Scotland

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Currently all health and social care staff including NHS, students and support workers are eligible for the £500 bonus payment. However, this does not extend to agency workers despite many of them working long hours in high risk environments to cover staff shortages and help keep care homes afloat.

Social care workers are expected to support people who may need assistance of varying degrees with activities of daily living. They are not nurses and aren’t specifically trained to look after acutely unwell residents. With outbreaks of Covid-19 in care and residential homes, all staff were expected to adjust their role accordingly. Contracted staff are being thanked for this however agency workers, many of whom worked alongside doing the exact same job, are not eligible.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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Timeline

29 Dec 2020	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jan 2021

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