Male Home Carers Providing Personal Care To Females In Females Own Home

[cromagnus]

as a male homecarer I have been told I must Provide personal care to females I,m a lone worker Is this lawfull /legal.

[woofgang]

why not? Female home care workers have been providing personal care to males for years.

[cromagnus]

Why not? thats your opinion I need Fact is it legal or not

[ToraToraTora]

yes

[cupotee2]

I have no idea if its legal but quite honestly see why not.

I was a female carer for well over 20 years and attended male clients in all that time. The question of was it legal never came into it.

Do the job the same as you would a male client...

[pusskin]

Yes. When i was a home carer, I gave personal care to two ole boys.
Very personal care. No problem, as they couldnt care for themselves.

[MallyJ]

I suspect it is legal but wonder how many women would want men they do not know giving personal care ..... or even those men that they do know. Fill your boots? I am assuming that comment is an attempt at a joke ..... perhaps the idea of abuse of older people is amusing to some.... but not me.

[shoota]

I can see your reasons for concern crom, the line between necessary cleaning and indecent assault may be a very thin one.
I would be reluctant to do the job myself without a signed form of consent from the customer or whoever is legally responsible for her.
That is just my opinion - I am not aware of any legal need for it.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Mally......certainly no offence intended.This question raises another more important one..surely the legalities of all work performed by the carer should be paramount in any professional training undertaken and as such should not need to be asked on an open internet site such as this.

[Elina]

Cromagnus, my experience of this with my dad is his care workers worked in pairs. I'd be a little concerned about the consequences.

[Peter Pedant]

yes

there is no law that states that a male carer has to be chaperoned

In a hospital you have to be pretty crazy to do so
but that is a matter of professions and their regulation
with craxy insane regulators such as the GMC and NMC. Altho both regulators are governed by law ( medical Act etc ) their rules are NOT law.

[Peter Pedant]

People should not confuse what is unlawful ( here against the criminal law ) and things or activities that a regulator would criticise

I think we are talking about unregulated care here
and the OP has made it quite clear he wants to know what the law is

it is lawful

[woofgang]

sorry I obviously didn't make myself clear
yes it is. why not? Female home care workers have been providing personal care to males for years

[jennyjoan]

I very much wouldn't like it all. One male and one female or none at all

[woofgang]

what the law might say is that the worker must be police checked....not sure about that does anyone know?

[woofgang]

I can appreciate that many women won't like it, but men have been cared for by female carers for years.

[Rtaxron]

Surely the people who employ you would know, ask them.

And its not ilegal.

[Rtaxron]

## what the law might say is that the worker must be police checked....not sure about that does anyone know? ##

Yes, have to be police checked Woof.

[cromagnus]

Woofgang.... got a lot of answers

[Kimdottir]

Home workers don't have to be police checked by law, that's between the carer and client, but if you work for an agency. The agency will require it. Male carers can look after females, but aren't allowed to give them personal care if the female is under 16.