Covid-19: Vulnerable People Debate
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Lord Mann
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Covid-19: Vulnerable People
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Baroness Barran
The Government are keeping all those issues under review. Their commitment to supporting people to stay in employment remains undiminished.
Lord Mann (Non-Afl)
Voluntary sector workers with type 1 diabetes have been pressured to go back to work even where their doctor has advised otherwise. Is there some way in which this funding could be used to deal with what is an anomaly in current practice and policy?
Baroness Barran
I am unclear as to whether this fund would be applicable, but the Government’s advice on going back to work is clear: people should go back to work only if it is safe to do so, and, clearly, an existing medical condition could impact on that. As the noble Lord knows, detailed guidance is being produced. I recommend that those in the situation that he describes refer to it.