• Care homes are desperately short of staff - why no emergency UK visas for them? | Simon Jenkins

    Care homes are desperately short of staff - why no emergency UK visas for them? | Simon Jenkins
    As the government hastily arranges visas for truck drivers, its lack of regard for the care sector crisis is clearDespite all the panic in government and at the petrol station forecourt, there is another urgent question: what about the care homes? The government is hastily attempting to give three-month visas to 5,000 foreign truck drivers to “save Christmas”. It is also allowing 5,000 visas for farm workers to gather in the winter harvest. But, in the face of widespread personnel sh

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