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• Number applying to work or study in UK falls by more than a third

  09-08-2024 09:21
  
  People seeking skilled worker, health and care, or study visas drops to 91,300 in July after curbs introduced by ToriesThe number of overseas workers and students applying to come to the UK has fallen after curbs on visas introduced by the previous government.Workers and their family members applying on skilled worker, health and care, and study visas fell by more than a third in July to 91,300 compared with last year. Continue reading...
  
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• The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children | Gaby Hinsliff

  09-08-2024 07:00
  As fewer Britons have children, more will be left to navigate our threadbare social care system and overstretched hospitals aloneIt was visiting time at the hospital, and the corridors were full of dutiful middle-aged sons and daughters. The woman who held the ward door open for me was balancing a formidable stack of Tupperware boxes: home-cooked food, in case the nurses were too busy to make sure her elderly father ate. Why hadn’t I thought of that? But there’s always something more
  
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