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    Visa changes for social care workers 'spell total disaster' for sector, union warns

    by Aine Fox Dec 05, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Alamy/PA

    “Swiftly improved” pay and conditions will be needed to drive domestic recruitment in social care, the Government has been warned, as changes to UK migration rules were judged by a union to “spell total disaster” for the sector.

    Immigration has been hailed as “saving the social care sector” in a similar way to how it helped the NHS after the Second World War, by an organisation representing providers across England.

    Under new plans announced by Home Secretary James Cleverly on Monday in Parliament, overseas health.

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