Covid Jab for Returning Carers?

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My sister currently has a full time admin job (which she hates). However, the staff have been told that there will be redundancies in 2 weeks time so she is pretty sure she will be getting the chop.

Her husband is recovering from Colon Cancer and so is on SSP. They rely heavily on her wage. Before this office role she was a carer for an agency which she enjoyed and so is thinking that she might go back to that.

However, I am scared to death! She has lung damage from chemo and I am petrified of her catching Covid as she is also on the wrong side of 50 and overweight.

Does anyone know the situation with carers for agencies getting the Covid jab? Is it just carers in nursing homes that get it at the moment? Would she be better off applying for a job in a nursing home if that’s the case? Would she still get it if she started in 3-4 weeks time or would she have missed the boat and have to wait for her age category?

Im just so sad she might be more at risk in a few weeks.

Carers on agency are being offered the jab. I know two people who've been offered it, one has ranted on FB that she isn't getting it.

My DD is a manager within SC and she has had to put together the paperwork for her bank staff to get it.

The provision should still be available in three weeks, just as 80 year old/hospital patients can access it, if not well enough when the first roll out happened.

I'd say that she is at less risk doing home care rather than residential.