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International recruitment of care workers has ended, the impact may be disastrous
By ending new international recruitment into care the government will achieve a political aim - reducing immigration. But to believe that it can contemporaneously not harm the adult social care sector is at best naive.
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Latest changes to the immigration rules: ‘a sub-optimal way to make policy’
The Home Office’s failure to first consider the impact of cutting 180 occupations from the Skilled Worker visa, and closing the Health and Care worker visa overseas, has been lambasted by a Lords Select Committee.
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Parliamentary report acknowledges scale of exploitation on the Skilled Worker visa
This report is the most damning evidence yet that the government’s work migration system, premised mainly on the concept of sponsorship, was facilitating the widespread exploitation of migrant workers in the UK.
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No match. Why funding rematching hubs for displaced migrant care workers is not enough to tackle exploitation
Following revelations that just 3.4% of exploited care workers got jobs via a government scheme, we find that the government’s expectations were at odds with the reality of the care sector and the difficulties faced by workers.
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Less than 4% of exploited care workers found new work, FOI data reveals
Drawing on data obtained via Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, we find that just 3.4% of migrant care workers signposted by UKVI for job finding support were successful in getting new work via a government scheme.
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