Do all care people visiting elderly in own homes insist on key safe?

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DMil is unwell. Various care agencies will probably need to attend her at home when she gets out of hospital. DH is trying to get ahead with making her house more suited to her new normal. Is a key safe obligatory or will keys be able to be ‘hidden’ in the garden?

You should use a key safe and not hidden keys. Someone could easily see where a carer leaves the key (unsecured) if they are nearby, especially if carers are in and out all day long. And if a burglar gets access using a key then it could possibly put the carers in a vulnerable position legally as they have knowledge of where the key is hid and it is not secure. Also the insurance won't pay out.

For the sake of a tenner, buy a key safe.

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Please use a key safe. Carers don't have time to be hunting for keys in the garden and it gets dark in the winter before a tea time call. It won't necessarily be the same care team each week so it's not the case that they will all know where the keys are.

I work for a care company and we would not let carers hunt for keys in the garden. It’s not safe for your vulnerable relative. A key safe can also be used by GPs, district nurses and other health care professionals as well as meals on wheels type services so makes life easier.

Ours did, and we linked to a response service that had pendants for both elderly residents.
Why would you not want something efficient that the emergency services could use too?

I had a key safe for my DM. I thought it was obligatory for all the above reasons.
Just DH who has obviously zoned out of the minutiae of the last 15 years dealing with my parent(s) was insistent it was not required.
He’s now been to the local Screwfix,
Thank you to all