A legal letter sent to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says that the blanket ban on older care home residents going on trips to see family or friends violates human rights legislation. Campaigners say that residents are being treated like “a different species”. The Telegraph has the story.
A ban on care home residents taking trips is facing a legal challenge amid claims they are being treated like “a different species” and denied “simple freedoms”.
Government guidance, updated on March 9th, says trips to see family or friends “should only be considered” for under-65s while national Covid restrictions apply.
Visits out for residents, whatever their age, “should be supported in exceptional circumstances such as a visit to a friend or relative at the end of their life”, it adds – but on returning to the home, the resident must self-isolate for two weeks.
The Government said its current guidance provides a “range of opportunities” for visitors to spend time with loved ones, however, John’s Campaign, which represents those lobbying for extended visiting rights of family carers in hospitals and care homes, argue that the ban is unlawful.
Julia Jones, co-founder of the John’s Campaign, has said that care home residents have been “comprehensively ignored” over the past year of lockdowns.
The 440,000 people living in care homes include some who moved in through their own volition, with full mental capacity, never guessing that this simple freedom, enjoyed by everyone else in the population, apart from prisoners, could so easily be denied them.
Those who cannot make their own choices have relatives and friends who would normally be glad to take responsibility but have been excluded choices.
Her campaign group has sent a legal letter to the DHSC urging it to change its guidelines.
John’s Campaign has now sent a legal letter to the DHSC saying the decision whether someone can go on a visit outside a care home should be based on individual risk assessments, and that to deny this contravenes equality and human rights legislation.
“The Department of Health, and particularly Public Health England, looks at care home residents as if they are a different species,” Ms Jones added. “These are people living in care homes and they have the range of morbidities, of problems, of disabilities and of capabilities.”
“The first point they did this was July last year, they said they are looking into guidance for visits out of care homes. And they have been looking into it ever since,” she added.
“People living in care homes are people very often living towards the end of their lives, or they are people living with a learning disability, for whom their wellbeing is dependent on their routines.
“These people have been comprehensively ignored.
“We understand this guidance was prepared very hastily, we sent a message back at the time, they have had almost a month to make it better, they haven’t done so. We’re just not going to wait – this is unlawful and wrong.”
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Good to see the headline in DS referring correctly to “him” – reflecting how he was referred to by his former team-mates. Shame the term “transgender” was used. It’s a bullshit term. He’s a man pretending to be a woman.
Him/it!
Well said
Off-T
https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabia-breaks-us-global-power/5859999
This could be the start of major financial upheavals across the West.
“Saudi Arabia has reportedly decided not to renew its 80-year petro-dollar deal with the U.S. This bad news for the US is censored in Western media, but is reported today by Times of India.”
Times they are a changing Hux!
Xi Jinping as no such sheepish reserve about fossil fuels! (Hydrocarbons)
New, reliable future customers welcome..cha-ching!
All those petro dollars being traded have no where to go except ‘home’. Huge inflationary pressure. A number of US economists have been warning about this for years. No wonder it’s not being reported.
There, fixed it.
Well of course the decision didn’t sit well with him. Now a crappy male athlete can’t behave like a fraud and only get a taste of success by cheating women out of their deserved successes by pretending he’s one of them. Also, are the medals and trophies that this imposter *stole* going to be revoked and given to the rightful winners?
An interesting new study out of Germany demonstrating that the majority of young people diagnosed with a gender identity disorder grow out of it after a few years. This replicates the findings of studies gone before that I’ve seen in passing. This research provides further confirmation of just how unethical and horrific it is to focus on ‘transing’ kids, which is just 100% child abuse;
”A new long-term study from Germany suggests that the majority of young people diagnosed with gender identity disorders do not continue to identify as such over time. The study examined insurance data over five years, revealing that more than half of young people aged 5-24 across every age subgroup diagnosed with “gender identity disorder” no longer had the diagnosis after five years. Specifically, the desistance rate was 72.7% in 15- to 19-year-old females and 50.3% in 20- to 24-year-old males. Among the whole group of 5- to 24-year-olds, only about 36.4% of those diagnosed in 2017 still had the diagnosis five years later, indicating that more than 63% desisted.
One of the strengths of this study is its comprehensive collection of outpatient billing data for all legally insured persons in Germany, providing a large and representative sample. Additionally, the long observation period from 2013 to 2022 offers valuable insights into long-term trends and changes in diagnosis rates.
The research also noted a dramatic rise in the number of young people being diagnosed with gender identity disorders. In 2013, there were 22.5 cases per 100,000 insured young people, but by 2022, this had increased to 175.7 cases per 100,000, representing an increase of nearly 681%.”
https://www.buttonslives.news/p/new-study-most-german-youth-outgrow
I wonder if Thomas got any scholarships? Other men have deprived women of prize money.
Needs a kick in his bollocks !!
He needs locking up in a mens prison! I’m sure the inmates will make him feel womanly!
He’s a mentally ill sexual pervert playing the system
From Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/news/disqualified-lia-thomas-asks-if-he-can-still-just-hang-out-naked-in-the-olympic-womens-locker-rooms
100%, See my post above
The final paragraph of that story means Planet Fitness and 24hr Fitness make the list of woke companies to avoid.
” Im voting Labour, because I always have!”
Good grief, grow a brain!
Good to see that man must stay in male changing rooms.
Was it hanging down or sticking up? That is the question.
Scanlan didn’t HAVE to undress before him 18 times a week. She should have refused and left the swimming team …. and so should all the other women.
The nonsense will only stop when ALL female athletes refuse to participate in any sport which allows a man (dangly bits or no dangly bits) to compete with them.
Thomas has just taken the middle three letters of his christian name, so whenever writing his name, everybody should write it as “wilLIAm Thomas”
Then, while ostensibly adhering to his confused preference, it’ll be obvious he’s a man.