Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Government’s childcare plan was a “really positive intervention” as he was quizzed by working parents over whether the nursery sector had enough places and
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NHS England has been over-optimistic and there are “significant weaknesses” in its plan for the future of the health service workforce, a report has found. The National Audit Office (NAO)
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The Home Office’s explanation for not consulting on its ban on foreign care workers bringing family members to the UK was “unconvincing”, a Lords committee said adding that it had
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The number of people coming to the UK on a health and care visa is more than five times what it was when the route was introduced three years ago,
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The Government is being urged to make payments worth several thousand pounds on top of salaries to prevent nursing staff leaving the NHS and to tackle a worsening “workforce crisis”.
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Many childcare providers in England will struggle to meet increased demand for funded places under the Government’s offer, early years leaders have said. Families who do manage to secure a
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Leading nurses have urged the Government to introduce a package of measures to support recruitment in the profession. It comes after new Ucas figures showed a decline in applications to
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The Government has launched a £6.5 million-backed recruitment campaign to encourage people to work in the early years sector just two months before the first phase of its flagship childcare
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Banning overseas care workers from bringing loved ones to the UK will ensure a “more manageable approach” to staffing the sector, a minister has said. The new rules will come
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Overseas care workers coming to the UK will no longer be allowed to bring dependants under new rules from mid-March aimed at tackling “unsustainable and unfair levels of migration”. The
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