UK Government Challenged Over Legality of Guidance on Visits-out From Care Homes

UK Government Challenged Over Legality of Guidance on Visits-out From Care Homes
A care home resident talks with a carer outside a care home in Scunthorpe, northern England on May 4, 2020. Lindsey Parnaby/AFP via Getty Images
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Britain has been told by campaigners that its guidance for care home residents going out to visit friends and family amid the ongoing CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic is unlawful.
On Monday, John’s Campaign, which advocates for dementia sufferers called upon the government to change its “Making a Christmas bubble with Friends and family“ and ”Visits out of care homes“ guidance because the blanket restrictions promoted in them breach the Equality, Human Rights, and Care acts.