UK to end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

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Care homes and migration will not be able to recruit foreign workers as part of a jerky clampdown that will limit UK employees to use the visa system to meet low-skilled jobs.

Home Secretary Yavet Cooper announced on Sunday that the Care Worker Visa route would be canceled in a few months, a part of a migration white paper published on Monday to reduce the net to reduce the net to reduce the net. Internal migration in BritainThe

The new rules to restrict skilled worker visas to the undergraduate level were intended to call Cooper “Failed Free Market Experiment”, where employers were able to recruit abroad as the UK’s homegraown work was shrinking.

But he said that his plans would take “considerable reduction” in the UK number in the United Kingdom, but he would not place any Number target for net migrationThe

Anti -Immigration Reform UK Party has changed after extensive profit In the local elections Earlier this month, in England, and Sir Care Starmer’s Labor Party’s opinion survey survey.

If they fail to reduce immigration, as a sign of the government’s recognition of the government’s political risk, on Sunday, Starmer repeated his promise to “restore control and migration.” With strong new measures “, adding:” British workers – I got behind you. “

Cooper told the BBC that the caree worker visa route, which is mainly combined with other changes to affect low skilled jobs, will reduce the arrival of about 5,7 a year.

Asked if the net migration level should be less than 1,5 a year, he told Sky News that “should be significantly further down”, indicating that ministers will take further measures to reduce the number.

The latest information in the mid -2012 has shown the net migration of 7222,3, but the budget office is expected that the already implemented visa restrictions by the previous Conservative Government will reduce the flow of the medium -dimensional flow.

Cooper said that the latest changes mean access to the visa for a graduate non-graduate role will be “strictly time-confined”, only where there is evidence of crisis for the government’s industrial techniques, and the UK workers are involved in training and recruitment efforts, Cooper said.

In construction, for example, there will be a temporary list of occupations where employers can recruit abroad to reduce labor deficit, and more, more UK employees are being trained.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp marked it as a “little 50,000 tweet” which was “not enough”. He acknowledged that the Conservative Party took the “late” arrangement to deal with migration, which reached over 5,7 in mid -2021 under the previous Tory government.

Cooper further indicated that changes in Visa rules for international students in the UK would be less harsh than universities fearing Those who depend on their feesThe Students will still be able to stay and work in the UK after completing their course, he said, but universities will be expected to do more to confirm the visa rules.

The Care Visa Route is closed to adult social care suppliers, who will face the shortage of chronic workers because the funds on local authorities are unable to raise their wages. According to the development and planning agency in England, in 2023-23, there was a vacuum of 131,000 for more than 8 percent of all roles.

“Where do these workers come from if there is no fund or migration route?” Jane Townson, chief executive of the Home Care Association, added that suppliers were deeply concerned that the government was not properly considered what would be dependent on millions of people’s home care “.

Cooper told the BBC that extension of existing care worker visas will be allowed and the sector will already be able to recruit from about 10,000 immigrant pools in the UK ”who came to the careful worker visa.

He said that care agencies should “recruit those people from that pool instead of recruiting from abroad,” he said.

Cooper said the move would come along with a new “Fair pay deal” for care workers. “We have seen that there is a huge increase in the recruitment of care work from abroad, but in reality without dealing with the problems of the system,” he said, which includes low wages for UK applicants’ role, “he said.

However, employers say that there is no way to increase their salary without the basic reform of the way the care sector is financed.

A review of the Care System announced by Health Secretary Wes Steying This year will release preliminary searches next year but will not be complete Up to 2028The

Richard Ties, deputy leader of the reform UK, said the people were “angry, fierce” about the level of both legal and illegal immigration, which he argued that he was responsible for his party’s first arrival in the local elections.

He said that the government’s plan was destined to fail and argued that “a new person who indeed believe in the sovereign border” require a “separate, dedicated division” with them.