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Issue 149
Overseas Workers ‘Invaluable’ to Adult Social Care but Additional Funding Vital says Sector Leader
The chief executive of Care England has said immigration is vital to address vacancies and workforce shortages in the adult social care sector. Professor Martin Green CEO of Care England has called on Government to
UK’s net migration figures, which hit 606,000 in 2022. While the statistics place pressure on the government who promised to bring migration numbers down, in favour of recruiting UK workers, some sectors, in particular adult social care, are
give greater attention to boosting employment across the adult social care sec-
struggling with a workforce crisis, and have highlighted the importance of immi-
tor, in light of the Migration Statistics published by the Home Office.
gration to help fill vacancies.
The comments come amid the Office for National Statistics’ release of the
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