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Issue 188
Report Highlights “Rampant Exploitation” of Care Worker Visa System... As Multiple Failures Revealed
A rush to hire carers from overseas resulted in a “shocking” wave of abuse of worker visas, according to damning report which cited multiple failures in the
accused the government of under-estimating the demand for the care worker visa, and that implementation of the social care visa policy demonstrated the
Home Office’s system for awarding care worker visas, including 275 certificates
Home Office’s “limited understanding of the social care sector after it agreed to
of sponsorship granted to a care home without its knowledge and “using false
add the sector to the UK’s shortage occupation list in December 2021 allowing
information”.
more people to come from abroad to fill jobs.
The reports author, David Neal a former borders and immigration inspector
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