11 May 2025, 21:50 | Updated: 12 May 2025, 00:11

By Nadra Ahmed CBE

The devil will be in the detail and this announcement may have many hidden rabbit holes which will be laid bare.

It is important to understand the care sector only uses international recruitment as a last resort.

The irony is that in rushing this new announcement, the government has chosen to deliberately misunderstand the impact, which will be felt by those who receive care, can’t access it, and unpaid carers.

The scandal of the abuse of the visa licence debacle in 2021/22 was created by the Home Office, despite warning from the sector.

In issuing licences to newly formed recruitment agency’s, they missed out the crucial safety net of responsible providers who were struggling at that time.

People came in legitimately but with spurious contracts from profiteers, preying on an already fragile sector because of growing vacancies.

The increased vacancies were caused by Brexit and the Covid ‘no jab, no job’ policy, exclusively for our sector.

We saw 40,000 of our workforce make the choice to leave,........

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