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What are the problems with the UK visa system for care work?

02-06-2024 18:40

Foreign workers say they have faced financial exploitation amid attempts to ease chronic staff shortages in the sectorDozens of foreign workers in social care in the UK say they have faced financial exploitation, paying thousands of pounds to secure full-time jobs and often finding little or no work available when they arrive.Experts say the number of such cases has jumped in recent years after the government relaxed the visa system for care work in an attempt to solve chronic staff shortages. W

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‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

02-06-2024 18:40

People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa systemAkhil Jenny was living in a small town in southern India, struggling with crippling debts, when a work contact offered him a way out.“I had some loans which I had taken out for medical care and I couldn’t repay them,” Jenny told the Guardian. “I had a nursing qualification and wanted to come to the UK. That’s what Shinto Sebastian offer

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UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps

02-06-2024 18:37

Exclusive: Experts raise alarm over ‘national scandal’ that has hallmarks of trafficking and modern slaveryBritish social care agencies have been accused of exploiting foreign workers, leaving migrants living on the breadline as they struggle to pay off debts run up while trying to secure jobs that fail to materialise.Dozens of people working for 11 different care providers have told the Guardian they paid thousands of pounds to agents to secure jobs working in British care homes or

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The Observer view on the social care crisis: whoever wins the election, it needs addressing urgently

02-06-2024 07:30

Labour and the Tories are avoiding talking about how to fund the overhaul of a system that is failing the elderly and people with disabilitiesThere is one pressing issue affecting millions of people that has been conspicuous in its absence from the general election campaign so far. The parlous state of social care in England – a system that has been described as being in crisis for well over a decade – is leaving too many older people and those with disabilities without the personal

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