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New Conservatives such as Miriam Cates also say large number of arrivals risks damaging UK’s cultural securityRishi Sunak risks damaging “cultural security” and faces defeat at the next general election unless emergency measures to curb net migration a…
Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugeesRishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed …
Analysis suggests demand for foreign staff has left care homes and NHS open to ‘vulnerabilities’The UK risks becoming highly reliant on overseas care workers after nearly 58,000 visas were issued for the sector last year, a report says.Analysis by the …
They came to fill gaps in a sector desperate for staff. Now an Observer investigation finds Indian nurses stuck in debt and despair, and wounded by broken promisesNurses hired from abroad to work for one of Britain’s biggest social care chains have bee…
Commons votes to suspend Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP for 30 days after breach of Covid rules. This live blog is now closedFull story: MPs back 30-day suspension for Margaret Ferrier over Covid breachQ: What would the minimum wage for workers be und…
Private provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to ScotlandThe trade body that oversees children’s care homes has taken the unprecedented step of publicly berating a major privat…
Survey also reveals nine out of 10 older people believe there are not enough care staff in the countryCare home where staff were filmed abusing 88-year-old still breaking rulesTrust in care homes has slumped, leaving half of the British public lacking …
Inspectors find lack of trained staff at Reigate Grange and medicines not being administered properlyHalf of UK public fear family would not be well looked after in care homesA £2,400-a-week care home where staff were secretly filmed abusing 88-year-ol…
Council are paying large sums for elderly care homes that are inadequate, need improving and not safe, finds Guardian researchFive of the largest private care chains are taking £150m a year in taxpayers’ money for places in English elderly care homes r…
Anger grows at care homes still restricting visits three years on from lockdown, causing ‘extreme distress’Families locked out of seeing loved ones in care homes during Covid have stepped up calls for a new law to prevent it happening again, amid repor…