Coronavirus: Cleaning Services

(asked on 23rd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on whether cleaning staff are classed as key workers during the covid-19 response.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st April 2020

Guidance for schools, childcare providers, colleges and local authorities in England on maintaining educational provision published on 19 March sets out which workers are considered to be critical to the COVID-19 response.

In relation to the health and social care sector the guidance makes clear that these workers include all front line, specialist and support staff and as well as those employed by contractors and suppliers to the health and social care system. This includes those who provide cleaning services to social care providers, the National Health Service, other health care provision, and to the contractors and suppliers of the wider sector. They all play a critical role in the tackling of this pandemic.

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