Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
yes thanks, I've suggested she looks into the phone-based support
NHS Volunteering..
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How are the folks who've signed up getting on (@dodgy, @steven1988)? Intrigued to hear how it all works
Haven't heard any more just yet, Wirral is quite far down the 'league' table of infections so far which might be way I'm not needed - yet...
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
In the U.S. , Diabetes is also seen as a risk factor for development of severe Covid-19.
vickster
Legendary Member
Nope, not driving as I don't have a DBS - identity has to be verified for all
vickster
Legendary Member
Have you looked at your local council's volunteer site?
i've volunteered for many years and managed them both paid and part of my voluntary work. So know how much work this will take to pull off. Many mostly fit and able people have now become housebound over night or cut off from family that help them. So most of the calls will be just helping them out. With simple stuff they can't do anymore. Any with real need will not be covered by this I suspect or be covered by other voluntary services already delivering services to them. Or with trained volunteers they already have.
Safeguarding is important and online training is possible. But i'd suggest a lot of cross checking will going off and volunteering matching will be going on. LA will be aware of people needing help who are possibly a risk to others. So won't be covered by this but other services that are currently working with them will carry on.
Re car Insurance most companies are signed up to a national agreement that covers voluntary work.
The association of motor insurances website site has a list. If in doubt check with your provider.
I'm currently waiting back to see how I can help my local area coordinate the volunteer response. Be it possessing , training , or being put back on FA response. My hunch is that it maybe carried out under one name "NHS volunteers" but ran and managed by the NAVCA members on a local level by it's members via the VCS EP. Meetings have already been happening with government. What's being asked has never really happened before and is a massive job to pull together. Unlike war time many of the organisations no longer have a good number of people trained and ready to go.
As for waiting please wait and see what happens many organisations are now getting so many requests they can only go as quick as they can.
I do know the British Red Cross has really been swamped after the daily mirror got involved with the appeal.
They can only offer you requests to help if your area starts asking them. Some LA are currently not preferring to use local pools of volunteers they are putting together.
The fact that we may now have too many vouenteers to go round is great. Trying to recruit volunteers is hard going so once we get over this current situation. Remember the same groups will still be around and still need help. So remember just as a dog is not just for Christmas. Volunteering is not just for times like this but ongoing. So if can carry on in some way how ever small then go for it.
Safeguarding is important and online training is possible. But i'd suggest a lot of cross checking will going off and volunteering matching will be going on. LA will be aware of people needing help who are possibly a risk to others. So won't be covered by this but other services that are currently working with them will carry on.
Re car Insurance most companies are signed up to a national agreement that covers voluntary work.
The association of motor insurances website site has a list. If in doubt check with your provider.
I'm currently waiting back to see how I can help my local area coordinate the volunteer response. Be it possessing , training , or being put back on FA response. My hunch is that it maybe carried out under one name "NHS volunteers" but ran and managed by the NAVCA members on a local level by it's members via the VCS EP. Meetings have already been happening with government. What's being asked has never really happened before and is a massive job to pull together. Unlike war time many of the organisations no longer have a good number of people trained and ready to go.
As for waiting please wait and see what happens many organisations are now getting so many requests they can only go as quick as they can.
I do know the British Red Cross has really been swamped after the daily mirror got involved with the appeal.
They can only offer you requests to help if your area starts asking them. Some LA are currently not preferring to use local pools of volunteers they are putting together.
The fact that we may now have too many vouenteers to go round is great. Trying to recruit volunteers is hard going so once we get over this current situation. Remember the same groups will still be around and still need help. So remember just as a dog is not just for Christmas. Volunteering is not just for times like this but ongoing. So if can carry on in some way how ever small then go for it.
Ta
Thanks - didn't know there were additional checks besides the DBS.
I have; there's quite a lot to work through and it doesn't seem as straightforward / informative / clearly defined as the NHS site, but I'll keep digging
vickster
Legendary Member
Identity check presumably for those who don't have DBS? Had to upload photo of passport
Thanks for clarifying - not sure my 2007 2mp phone camera would be up to that, but I could always give it a crack!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Just checked with my car insurance. Tesco car insurance have confirmed via their automated phone message that I'm covered for using my car for this volunteering. Not sure about other insurance companies. Would imagine the same.
Now signed up as NHS volunteer and with British Red Cross and see what turns up once they get on top of it.
Now signed up as NHS volunteer and with British Red Cross and see what turns up once they get on top of it.
This story might not bode well for anyone, let alone the situation i'm in.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-food-aid-in-days-as-virus-exposes-uk-supply
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-food-aid-in-days-as-virus-exposes-uk-supply
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
@Smudge
Leaving the house to get food if you are well enough to do so isn't against the shielding advice, because that's what it is, advice.
Quoting from the shielding document:
"Shielding is for your personal protection. It is your choice to decide whether to follow the measures we advise."
Rejecting all of it by carrying on as before would be taking the wee, but reducing pressure on stretched resources by obtaining your own food is, I reckon, being more socially responsible, not less.
As the document says, the measures are for your protection.
If you practise social distancing while shopping, you are causing no greater risk to others.
Get yourself down to Morrisons - it's nice and quiet in there.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ng-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Just what we need, more scare mongering.
I am part of the 1.5 million people that have been advised not to leave our houses at all, as i'm high risk of being hospitalised if i were to get this virus. So its not about me passing on the illness, its also about not being a burden on the already stretched NHS if i were to get it.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Yes, I grasp that.
That's why the quotes in my post are from the extremely vulnerable guidance, which is the guidance you are under.
Matter for you, of course.
