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Bonus Payments for frontline care staff

 

 

To approve payments to registered care providers, to enable bonus payments to be made to all frontline care staff in Herefordshire. Frontline workers would include any staff who are essential to delivering care, including some catering or cleaning workers. The payments are intended to promote retention of essential workers during a time of very significant workforce challenges.  Payments will total £500 for each worker and will be made by registered care providers as the employers, through their payroll. The cost of the payments will be met through the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund, supplemented from the council’s own resources. The payments will be made between January and March 2022, and will be funded from the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Grant and council reserves earmarked for adult social care.

 

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: Expenditure and strategic nature / impact on communities;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Notice of proposed decision first published: 23/12/2021

This decision will be taken under urgency procedures.

Reason for urgency:
The decision is urgent in seeking to have an impact on workforce retention at a critical time during winter pressures and when the care sector is already facing a workforce crisis. It is felt to be essential that the first payments are with providers, as early in January 2022 as is practicable. It was not possible to plan the decision earlier as the funding available from government has only been confirmed very recently.

Decision due: 24 January 2022 by Cabinet member health and adult wellbeing

Lead member: Cabinet member health and adult wellbeing

Lead director: Assistant Director All Ages Commissioning

Department: Adults and Communities (Historic)

Contact: Ewen Archibald, Interim Assistant Director, All Ages Commissioning Email: Ewen.Archibald@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432 261970.

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