One of the changes to the UK work migration regime announced in this week's White Paper was that care workers could no longer be hired directly from abroad. To some this return to the pre-2021 system was an act of economic self-harm (isn't the UK desperately short of care workers with high levels of vacancies?), pandering to the worst type of anti-immigrant rhetoric and not even doing that in an effective way as public opinion generally supports allowing the hiring of migrant care workers. In fact, it's an important and necessary change as the current visa, inherited from the previous government, was seriously flawed.

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14 May 2025

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LSE Politics and Policy

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/why-the-social-care-visa-had-to-go/

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