Ministers have rowed back on plans to hike the earning threshold Britons need to bring foreign family members to live in the UK to £38,700. Instead, the Government has confirmed
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Social care leaders felt “blindsided” by recently-announced changes to visa rules banning care workers from bringing their families to the UK and have “grave concerns” it could drive people from
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A care leader has questioned the Health Secretary’s claim that people within the sector are “broadly relaxed” about changes banning international care workers from bringing dependants when they come to
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The social care sector is “broadly relaxed” about changes which will see international care workers banned from bringing dependants when they come to the UK, the Health Secretary has said.
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Raising the income threshold for family visas will have a minimal impact on immigration numbers, a Government adviser has said. Rule changes will not be a “major player in reducing
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Immigration is “not the solution” to problems in the social care workforce, according to a Government adviser. Professor Brian Bell reiterated calls for care worker pay to “rise significantly above
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned new family visa rules will have a “negative impact” on married and family relationships. Justin Welby (pictured) said the Government is “rightly concerned” with
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Hospitals in England have spent more than £3 billion on agency nurses in the last few years, according to new data. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) gathered figures under
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“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
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Nine out of 10 care workers cannot afford to take time off sick, research suggests. A survey by the GMB union found that two in five would not even take
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