As if expendable: The UK Government's failure to protect older people in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Summary

The report, As if expendable: The UK Government's failure to protect older people in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, was published by Amnesty International in 2020.

It argues that the UK government, national agencies, and local-level bodies have taken decisions and adopted policies during the COVID-19 pandemic that have directly violated the human rights of older residents of care homes

in England – notably their right to life, their right to health, and their right to non-discrimination. The report states that decisions and policies have also impacted the rights of care home residents to private and family life, and may have violated their right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment.