Crackdown on visas hurting NHS and social care, Yorkshire & Humber TUC hears
THE government is worsening staffing crises in the social care sector and the NHS by imposing restrictions on vital overseas workers, the TUC Yorkshire & Humber conference heard.
Unison regional convener Wendy Nichols told delegates yesterday that the staffing crisis in social care, which has 170,000 vacancies, was “possibly even more precarious than in the NHS.”
She said that in 2022, the government “realised its folly” and introduced a system under which overseas workers could be given sponsorship by an employer to come to Britain to work in the social sector.
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