Minimum salary thresholds to also remain in place, presenting additional barrier
The exclusion of care home staff from the government’s post-Brexit fast-track visa system for health workers threatens to cause “an unmitigated disaster” and increase the risk of future Covid-19 infections, social care leaders have warned.
The government said it hopes Britons will instead fill any jobs shortfall in the sector, which currently stands at around 10% of all posts. But Care England, which represents the largest private providers of care beds, said the decision treated social care staff as “second class citizens” and the National Care Forum, which represents voluntary providers, warned it could increase the use of agency staff who have already been shown to have spread coronavirus.
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