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<p>We recognise how important visits from chaplains and others who provide religious
and spiritual support are for some residents. We have published visiting guidance
setting the next step in our cautious opening up of visiting in line with the roadmap,
enabling indoor visiting supported by lateral flow device (LFD) testing.</p><p>Care
home managers are best placed to decide how their care home can deliver the visiting
outlined in the guidance in a way that meets the needs of their residents. There is
nothing to stop chaplains, ministers of religion or others making visits where residents
would like to see them and where the care home manager is content this is in line
with the home’s visiting policy based on a dynamic risk assessment.</p><p>All visitors
must follow infection control measures to keep residents and staff safe. To this end,
personal protective equipment is being provided for free until the end of June and
care homes have been provided with sufficient LFD tests to ensure that visitors can
take a test each time they visit.</p><p>On that basis, visits of this type are already
enabled.</p>
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