Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Duty to remove asylum seekers Clause 2 of the bill would place a duty on the home secretary to remove anyone who entered the UK after 7 March 2023, without the right to do so or the right to remain, and without having come directly from a country in which their life and liberty was threatened.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Steve Barclay says home secretary is looking at restrictions after Robert Jenrick proposed banning workers from bringing children The number of dependants that foreign care workers are allowed to bring in to the UK could be cut under government plans to reduce immigration, a cabinet minister has said.

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Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. It’s not just immigration, there’s a tail of bad very bad employers in the social care sector who exploit workers.”

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Prof Brian Bell, who chairs the Migration Advisory Committee, said policies being pushed by immigration minister Robert Jenrick, which also include a cap on overseas care worker numbers, risked worsening the chronic staffing shortage.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) issued the message after the government disclosed that 200 unaccompanied children remained missing after being placed in hotels after arriving in the UK. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick admitted in Parliament this week that their legal status was a grey area.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Immigration rules will be relaxed for care workers, care assistants and home care workers, who will be added to the Home Office’s shortage occupation list. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

Grosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewed One of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits.

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The Guardian

JULY 2, 2023

Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugees Rishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Home Office data released as Tories and Labour prepare for immigration to be key battleground at upcoming general election The number of visas issued to allow social care workers into the UK reached record levels in 2023, according to newly released figures.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. Immigration figures This resulted in a rise from 113 to 40,416 in the number of these staff issued with health and care visas from 2021-22 to 2022-23.

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The Guardian

MAY 23, 2023

Wages remain a problem, but rising numbers of skilled non-EU workers appear to be helping the NHS, social care, and indeed the overall UK economy The UK public policy landscape is littered with disasters. For Labour, immigration levels play into the narrative that 13 years of Tory rule have broken the country.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services issued the warning after the Home Office introduced a five-day target for councils to accept children from hotels following referral under the now mandatory national transfer scheme (NTS) – under which all authorities across the UK must accept a share of unaccompanied minors.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

He also ordered the Home Office and Kent to jointly pay court costs – valued at £50,000 – to ECPAT UK. In light of today’s judgment, we will continue to work with Kent County Council and local authorities across the UK to ensure suitable local authority placements are provided for unaccompanied children, in line with their duties.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Reliance on international recruitment National data showed a small overall reduction in adult social care vacancies from 2022-23, from 164,000 to 152,000, driven by the government relaxing immigration rules to enable more recruitment from abroad. “When money is made available it simply isn’t cutting through.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2023

The government’s Illegal Migration Bill has passed its first parliamentary hurdle as the Children’s Commissioner for England issued a stark warning about its impact on vulnerable children seeking refuge in the UK.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 745,000 in 2022. Continue reading.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Councils across UK required to take unaccompanied children. These include having the right placements in the right places, the availability of specialist mental health support, historically low funding rates for us to support care leavers and the timeliness of decision making in relation to immigration status.”. Related articles.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A significant drop in the supply of new staff from overseas from 2019 to 2021, following tightened immigration rules. Unlike their counterparts in the rest of the UK, care workers in England have not been paid any government bonus for working through the pandemic.”.

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Scottish and Welsh governments are seeking an urgent meeting with the Home Office to raise concerns over its now-mandatory requirement for UK councils to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The Welsh Government also expressed concerns about the mandatory regime and the UK government’s wider asylum policy. Related articles.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

It also said the UK government and its Scottish and Welsh counterparts should work with the health and social care sectors to mandate training for middle managers who handle workforce complaints, including concerns raised on grounds of race.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

This settlement house provided assistance to immigrants, women, and children during the late nineteenth century. Marlene Zepeda is an American social worker and advocate for immigrant rights. She was a pioneering advocate for the humane treatment of prisoners and immigrants, as well as an active suffragist.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

per week to live on, with some subject to immigration detention. Many people who come to the UK will have endured significant trauma including physical and sexual abuse and may have a deep distrust of medical professionals through their life experiences,” it said in a statement.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 16, 2023

In the UK, they were more than twice as likely to experience economic hardship relative to top quintile earners. In the UK, immigrants and black, Asian and other ethnic minorities were more likely to experience economic hardship just after the first lockdown.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Introduction: Social work has a history of more than 100 years of addressing climate change issues, beginning with its acclaimed Nobel Laureate, Jane Addams who encouraged Italian immigrants in Chicago, USA, to recycle waste to clean up the environment and generate income in low-income communities marred by poverty.

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Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Based on this, I did research on Zambrano relatives and realised that mother is entitled to stay in the UK and supported her to apply to Home Office. In addition, I have been able to make referrals to key agencies. I was able to identify financial issues within the family unit as a result of mother having no recourse to public funds.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Their resilience is also absolutely unrivalled because they go through the wringer to find a job in the UK. The silent story of immigration Overseas practitioners’ commitment to their roles is also ensured through the hefty financial investment they make to come to the UK. It is also one that is very painful.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023 require the explicit approval of both Houses of Parliament and, following their passage, the Home Office will lay further regulations enabling the methods to be used in age-disputed cases.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

The National Age Assessment Board’s assessments and members of staff will be distinct from the Home Office’s asylum and immigration decision-making functions. We are taking steps to prevent adults claiming to be children, or children being wrongly treated as adults – as both present serious safeguarding risks to children.

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The Guardian

MARCH 30, 2024

Government accused of undermining the fight against labour abuses after £2m real-terms cut to oversight budget Britain’s labour abuse watchdog has had its funding cut by the Home Office despite a dramatic surge in exploitation in the care sector. last year, official figures show.

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The Guardian

APRIL 25, 2024

Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatory An organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

MARCH 26, 2024

‘Shocking’ system for awarding care worker visas leaves people at risk of exploitation, inspection report says A damning inspection report has found multiple failures in the Home Office’s system for awarding care worker visas, including 275 granted to a care home that did not exist.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At one care home in Scarborough workers cried when they heard the new visa rules. The sector relies on overseas staff but many now say they plan to leave for the US or Canada It’s just after 7am on a drizzly, dark December morning and staff at Saint Cecilia’s nursing home in Scarborough are handing over from the night to the day shift.

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The Guardian

MARCH 3, 2024

Suspected bogus companies with copy-and-paste websites, fake-looking reviews and PO boxes as addresses are among those granted licences allowing them to sponsor workers to come to the UK. Continue reading.

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Government 84

The Guardian

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The prime minister is due to face questions on his government’s performance from senior MPs 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 the sector, the Commons health committee heard this morning.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

The case is one of more than 170 examples of abuse and exploitation reported by foreign care workers across the UK in an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and Citizens Advice. Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some of those asked to help fill skills gap say they have been effectively paid as little as £5 an hour and charged unexpected fees Foreign care staff invited to the UK to help fix a chronic worker shortage are being “exploited on a grand scale”, a trade union has said, after it emerged some had been effectively paid as little as £5 an hour and charged (..)

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Healthcare 92

The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Anthony Mbare found his tied visa put him at mercy of his bosses. He is one of thousands who have come to plug shortages in adult social care It is a bitter November night and Anthony Mbare is shivering in a car in rural Wiltshire, south-west England, waiting to see his next client.

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