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• Labour has ‘no plans’ to allow health worker visas to include family members

  29-05-2024 19:17
  
  Rules were changed this year in effort to cut immigration, but experts warn bar on dependents will have significant impact on health serviceUK politics live – latest updatesLabour has “no plans” to change rules barring health and care workers from bringing their families to the UK on their visas, despite a plummeting number of NHS staff since the rules were changed earlier this year.Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the health service had become too reliant on ov
  
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• Our children’s services system is broken. This sharp rise in deprivation of liberty orders proves it | Letter

  29-05-2024 18:50
  
  Steven Walker, a retired social worker, is worried by an exponential increase in orders and the issues underlying itThe number of applications to the family courts for children’s deprivation of liberty (DOL) orders – most of which are granted – has risen massively in the last six years, from around 100 to more than 1,200, as reported by the BBC’s File on 4 programme last week. This is testimony to a broken children’s services system. Worse still, the places chi
  
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