Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, tells the Health Select Committee that despite what others have said "there were cases of people....who were symptomatic discharged into care homes."

Professor Green: "We should have been focusing on care homes from the start of this pandemic. The focus was on the NHS. Support was withdrawn." There was "destruction of our supply chains on PPE. We didn’t see everyone who needed a hospital intervention going to hospital."

James Bullion, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England: "We still don’t have an effective supply chain, although things have improved since March."

James Bullion: "We are not finished with waves of Covid in the social care sector in my view."

James Bullion: "The care workforce is 1.6 million. We are nowhere near the level of testing that is required."

Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive, Care England: "We are not really clear about what were the biggest routes of transmission."

Professor Martin Green is incredibly forthright:
"We have still got to the get the PPE situation sorted out." "We need a national strategy. Localism is not fit for purpose in a crisis. We need some central direction."
Some services "might go under."

James Bullion argues, though, that "local government and local NHS has helped protect social care."