MIGRANTS coming to Britain to take up difficult-to-fill jobs in social care are facing “appalling treatment,” Unison has warned.

Many are forced to pay back thousands of pounds in fees and housed in substandard accommodation where they have to share beds with colleagues, the public-sector union said.

In a damning letter to Social Care Minister Helen Whately, Unison noted a “significant rise in reports of unacceptable treatment by unscrupulous employers towards workers from overseas.”