Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-30/national-cabinet-close-contact-definition-household-covid/100731190
What does this mean for workplaces that are clearly not households, or events like concerts, conferences, courses, even weddings and funerals.
This seems absolutely absurd to me.
Note that I'm not a medical professional nor do I pretend to be one on the internet, so I'm just asking what on earth the thinking is here.
There have been 12 new cases of COVID-19 reported today. There have been 1,031 cases reported in South Australia to date.
Today’s cases are four women and four men between the ages of 20 and 60, and four children under the age of 12.
Of these cases, one acquired their infection interstate, five acquired their infection locally and are known contacts of a positive case, and six acquired their infection in Australia and investigations into the source of their infection is still ongoing.
Two health care workers who have visited and delivered care to residents at a number of Residential Aged Care facilities (RACF) across metropolitan Adelaide have tested positive to COVID-19. Affected RACF sites are being contacted by SA Health and supported to implement additional infection control measures, while testing of residents and staff is being undertaken. SA Health is working closely with the Commonwealth Department of Health and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to enact protocols to protect aged care residents and staff from the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
A man in his 30s and a man in his 60s are in the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a stable condition.
One case reported yesterday has been removed from South Australia’s total as the case is being managed by an interstate jurisdiction.
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Basically this. I currently receive tax credits and carers allowance for my father. He is getting worse. I am living in his flat with my children as a live in carer. I have children, one of whom receives dla. I am a carer to my grandmother. I have limited mobility due to arthritis (haven’t applied for pip).
If it hits the fan and he is moved, what do I do? Housing - can we stay, even if it’s temporary, benefits wise etc. I’m just thinking about emergency plans in place now
Edit : in England. I get carers allowance for my father, tax credits, dla in my child’s name, child benefit etc. My father lives in a council flat, his name on the lease.
A lot of them are assholes.
I have worked in child care, more specifically residential facilities for close to a decade. I have worked with hundreds of kids from every walk of life imaginable. I have worked with little kids from the ages of 3 to legal adults that "age out" at 21. Most of the children I have worked with have been great kids with unfortunate backgrounds that really wanted nothing more than to live a normal life and have some semblance of a family. I've seen kids enter care with a bag of clothes to their name and leave care with college degrees, jobs, cars, their own apartments, hell even babies - set to succeed and be productive members of society.
On the other hand I have seen kids get arrested for gang rape, assault, attempted homicide, and worse. The wild part is that we give the same treatment to all the children we serve. We have had the most generous and pragmatic staff get emotionally and physically abused by the kids we take care of and completely leave the field forever. I have seen for years how teenagers completely disregard all the benefits we provide them, for example.
+$300 purchase orders for clothes 4-5x a year and the kids LITERALLY throw their stuff out because its not high end name brand clothes. $110 sneakers? Not good enough. But these same kids will make sure to steal from stores and each other to get what they think is necessary.
My group home alone houses 9-10 teenage boys at a time, we easily spend $1000 a week on food. Entire plates of food thrown out WITH THE PLATES THEMSELVES. Snacks are turned into projectile toys for staff to clean up. Food is constantly wasted and stolen.
A nice large house built to accommodate 10 children and 4 staff is constantly destroyed and damaged by the kids. Bedrooms that get to Hoarders levels of filth. Only to be cleaned by staff. Damages only to be fixed by our maintenance department.
And we have no way to discipline our residents. The child care model that our agency follows is CARE. Children and the residential experience. It is designed to be trauma informed and person centered. It is great in theory, basically care for the children with kid gloves in hopes that the relationships you build daily will be enough to keep them on track, in program, safe, and succesful.
What it really does is let the kids know that they can do whatever they want. Our group home is located on a main street in a rough city in New York state. We are not high security, kids can walk out the door a
... keep reading on reddit ➡I've been working as a support worker for a number of adults with varying degrees of physical and mental support needs for roughly 4 years now. During this time I have interacted mostly in developing independent living skills and forms of communication (sign language, electronic, developing verbal etc.) though as it's a small home I also assist clients when it comes to washing themselves though this is limited purely to the male clients.
It was made abundantly clear when I started that male staff cannot support female clients though female staff are able to support male clients in this regard, this was something that always seemed odd though as one of the few male staff (and my first job in care) I just nodded and accepted it. I recently had a supervision and when mentioning it the response was summarised as "That's just how it is" didn't sit well with me. This has meant in the past that on the rare occasion that there has been only male staff on rota I would be disallowed from taking overtime as they would need a female staff member instead.
I was wondering what the wider social care communities opinion on this is. While I understand that in the event that someone doesn't feel comfortable with someone of the opposite sex assisting them during private care may request preferences that isn't something that applies to my situation. On the surface level it does feel like discrimination that has been legally allowed due to the Equality Act 2010 though I would love to hear some other opinions on this matter to help me better round my mindset on this.
I like how the job description said person-centered model as opposed to medical model. I’d love to hear how this is carried out!
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-30/national-cabinet-close-contact-definition-household-covid/100731190
What does this mean for workplaces that are clearly not households, or events like concerts, conferences, courses, even weddings and funerals.
This seems absolutely absurd to me.
Note that I'm not a medical professional nor do I pretend to be one on the internet, so I'm just asking what on earth the thinking is here.
