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• ‘Many care homes wouldn’t be here without foreign workers:’ fears over Tories’ plans to limit immigration

  25-11-2023 20:25
  
  Proposed policies restricting numbers and rights of foreign health workers create alarm among care home operatorsRead more: Curbs on migrant workers would be ‘dangerous’ for social care, warns government adviserFor years, Mike Padgham just couldn’t get the staff. When he would post job ads for vacancies at his five care homes in Yorkshire, he’d get very few responses.But early last year, the government opened a new immigration route, expanding the health worker visa schem
  
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• Curbs on migrant workers would be ‘dangerous’ for social care, warns government adviser

  25-11-2023 20:25
  Proposals to stop workers bringing dependants should be halted unless jobs are made more appealing to Britons, expert saysRead more: Fears over Tories’ plans to limit immigrationThe government’s top immigration adviser has attacked plans to prevent overseas care workers from bringing family members to the UK, warning that to do so could be “very dangerous” for the social care sector.Prof Brian Bell, who chairs the Migration Advisory Committee, said policies being pushed b
  
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