Care workers are already choosing not to come to the UK because of the government’s plan to ban them from bringing their families, openDemocracy can reveal.
Industry experts have warned that care homes may be forced to close after home secretary James Cleverly announced that people who come to work in the UK on Health and Care Worker visas will no longer be allowed to bring dependents from April.
Raj Sehgal, the managing director of Armscare, which runs five care homes in Norfolk, said the announcement had already led two foreign applicants to pull out midway through a recruitment process, citing fears that they would be separated from their loved ones.
