• ‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors

    ‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors
    Campaigners against labour exploitation urge government to conduct more stringent checks before awarding powersHundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal.Suspected bogus companies with copy-and-paste websites, fake-looking reviews and PO boxes as addresses are among those granted licences allowing them

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