Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure all care home residents are able to receive visits from at least one visitor when there are visitor restrictions within the home in which they reside.

The Government’s guidance states that every care home resident should be able to receive at least one visitor when outbreak restrictions are in place.

If a resident or their family have concerns that a care home is not following the guidance appropriately, these should be raised with the service provider in the first instance. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman or the Care Quality Commission can also investigate such concerns where it cannot be resolved locally.