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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 01:36:14 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626dyd8y8wo

   Care workers will no longer be recruited from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the home secretary has told the BBC.

   Yvette Cooper said it is "time to end that care worker recruitment from abroad" and rules will change this year - instead requiring firms to hire British nationals or extend visas of overseas workers already in the country.

   The government plans to unveil changes to visa and recruitment laws on Monday in a bid to cut net migration, and says measures will cut up to 50,000 lower-skilled and care workers coming to the UK over the next year.

   Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the plans were "too little" and called for an annual cap on migration. Successive governments have tried unsuccessfully to reduce net migration, which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving.

   Net migration climbed to a record 906,000 in June 2023, and last year it stood at 728,000.

   The Home Office has not yet officially confirmed what will be in its immigration White Paper, due early next week.

   Speaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Cooper said the government "was setting up plans for a substantial reduction in net migration" but added targets would not be set, saying "they undermined the credibility of anything that governments do".

   The threshold for skilled visas is expected to be increased to graduate level, tightened from the current A-level measure.

   There will also be a "narrower" list of exceptions to the rules for temporary shortage visas in some industries, Cooper said, but did not give examples.

   Currently, roles considered to be in short supply in the UK like carpenters, graphic designers and pharmaceutical technicians can be placed on the Immigration Salary List (ISL),, external allowing employers to hire overseas workers at discount - set at 80% of the market rate.

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     @Notgonnastop @Fullycaffeinated @HebrideanHecate frankly I'm scared
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     @FeartnTired @Fullycaffeinated @HebrideanHecate It is really frightening. My mother's nursing home has changed ownership 3 times in the 7 years she's been there. The direct care staff pretty much have remained the same but the administrative and supervisory staff change and it's obvious the level of pressure they're under to cut costs. The only thing that really keeps things at a minimal reasonable care level is the annual Medicare and Medicaid on site 3 day review and the HHS quarterly review of medical records. When those get cut due to HHS staff cuts it's going to be bad.
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     @Notgonnastop @FeartnTired @Fullycaffeinated @HebrideanHecate I’m extremely worried for the future. My dad is 70 and with everything going on, I’m basically certain that I’ll end up caring for him. Choices are pretty limited and none of my siblings are responsible people. Counting myself lucky that he’s still doing well because I have small children at home.
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     @FeartnTired @HebrideanHecate Exactly. We have the same issue here. Until they address the reasons WHY no one wants to do these jobs, it won't get any better.
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     @Fullycaffeinated @FeartnTired @HebrideanHecate Yep. There's a reason that 90% of the aides and 70% of the nurses in my mother's nursing home speak english with an accent. At least there's a union at her place so there's a level of accountability for wages, hours and working conditions, but the industry is still a race to the bottom. And when Medicaid payments get reduced to pay for trump and the GOP's tax cuts for billionaires it's gonna get worse in those facitilies that don't close.
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     @HebrideanHecate thing about this is we do absolutely need to crack down on this - there's two things wrong. 1. using the careworker visas to bring in women who end up working for illegal wages in other sectors and 2. conditions being so bad in care that only desperate immigrants can be made to fill the places.
     
     there are so many care agencies, and care homes, that are owned and run by men (and some women) from India, various African countries who are here to exploit everyone concerned. The local authorities payments. the NHS payments. the families. And the workers can't leave one care home/agency to go to another better run, with better wages because the bosses act like the slavegang masters - with-holding passports, threatening to get them deported, keeping crews with very little English so they are dependant on the bosses for everything.
     
     Set against that are plenty not like that at all of course, there's good an bad everywhere, but the push to make it an immigrant dominated profession should tell everyone there's a lot of dodgy shit goin on.
     
     HOWEVER rescinding the visas does NOTHING AT ALL to address any of the actual shortages or problems with care sector. It's all very well saying we should be training people here, but at zero hours and shit money, no-one wants to do it.