Devastated care staff at a home set to close down say they are still coming into work to help vulnerable residents who are being moved out.
Staff at Abbey Lawns care home in Anfield were suddenly told at the end of last month that the home would be shutting down in a matter of weeks. The care home has room for 61 residents and is believed to employ around 70 staff members in total.
The home is run by Intercare and the company previously told the ECHO that the care home never financially recovered from the impacts of the covid pandemic.
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Since news of the closure, heartbroken staff said they have had virtually no information from the company. They were last paid on February 6 and were told in a meeting with an insolvency company that any hours they are working now will have to be claimed back from the Department of Work and Pensions after the home closes.
Despite not knowing when or where their next pay check may come from, a number of staff members are continuing to come to work each day out to look after vulnerable residents who are in the process of being moved out to new facilities.
One staff member said: "We are only coming in out of a duty of care to these residents, out of good will - because we love and care for them all.
"We have had no formal letters about the home closing or anything, no notice periods, nothing - we have bombarded the company with questions and had nothing. We are being treated like fools."
Another staff member said: "There have been lots of tears, there is a lot of anger at how we have been treated. I have worked in the care sector for thirty years and never been treated like this.
"We had a meeting with the insolvency company who basically said we would have to try and claim pay back from the government when the home closes. We have all said we will stay until the bitter end for the residents."
Staff said that they have been now told that the home will close down on February 27 providing all the residents have been moved out to new homes by then.
One staff member said: "People are very worried. Unless you have a job to go to then you are snookered. There are girls who work her with young kids, they don't know what they are going to do."
A spokesperson for Intercare, who own the home, previously said: "It is with great regret that the after affects of Covid have finally caught up with the home and financially we have never fully recovered
"Our main focus is make sure the residence are not put under any unnecessary stress. They are out priority. Our staff have worked so hard over the last few years and it is a horrible experience for us all now."
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