OPIN-2020-0182 Social Worker Professional Visitors (w) Tabled on 03/11/2020

This Senedd:

a) believes that social workers are integral to ensuring the wellbeing of care home residents and should be treated as professional visitors with physical access to patients to carry out their statutory and non-statutory duties;

b) supports BASW Cymru’s call that all designated social worker professional visitors should be tested for COVID-19 on a weekly basis;

c) believes that social workers must be given priority access to people in care, health and supported living settings through testing, rigorous infection control, access to PPE;

d) recognises that without access to care and health settings, social workers are struggling to carry out mental capacity assessments.