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Stop making overseas social workers scapegoats for government failures
A woman with her hands covering her face, March 9, 2015
STOP making overseas social workers scapegoats for government failings, the Social Workers Union (SWU) and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) said today.
Recent government policy has focused on making it harder for migrant social workers to come to Britain, with Home Secretary James Cleverly laying out plans last month to ban them.
It comes amid a workforce crisis in the NHS.
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