The plans, which have not been denied by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), will reportedly result in workers having 16 weeks to receive the vaccine or face a contract termination.
A DHSC spokeswoman told carehome.co.uk: “More will be set out on the plans this week.”
The spokeswoman said: “Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic and have already saved thousands of lives – with millions of health and care staff vaccinated. Our priority is to make sure people in care homes are protected and we launched the consultation to get views on whether and how the government might take forward a new requirement for adult care home providers, looking after older people, to only deploy staff who have had a COVID-19 vaccination or have an appropriate exemption.”
A five-week consultation on whether the government should make vaccination mandatory for staff working in care homes for older people ended on 26 May with the DHSC saying its response will be published “in due course”.
Ministers are also considering making the jabs mandatory to everyone who works for the NHS. The move to implement mandatory vaccination for staff was first reported by the Guardian.
The DHSC will reportedly launch two separate consultation exercises into making Covid and flu jabs mandatory for NHS staff.