According to Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said that the current scheme in England only states that students who are undertaking “paid frontline roles” are covered by the scheme.
Those undertaking social care placements must be subject to contract of service, a contract for services, or an apprenticeship, for the provision of adult social services, children’s social care services, NHS funded care, or the provision of adult social care by a registered provider in order to be eligible for the scheme, it adds.
Unite has written to health and social care secretary Matt Hancock asking him to close the loophole in NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme 2020 as a matter of urgency.
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