UK to finish visas for care workers as part of Captpdown Immigration

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Care Homes will not be able to rent employees abroad as part of the full census of migration that would greatly restrict the ability of employers in the UK to use the visa system to fill in the lower skills.

Interior Minister Evit Cooper announced on Sunday that the care worker visa track will be canceled within months, which is part of a white deportation paper that will be published on Monday, which aims to radically reduce the network Internal migration to Britain.

The purpose of new rules limited the skilled workers ’visas to jobs at the graduate level is to end what Cooper called the” failed free market experience “, as employers were able to recruit abroad freely, as the local workforce in the United Kingdom decreased and economic lack of activity increased.

But she said that although her plans would lead to a “significant decrease” in the number of people coming to the United Kingdom, she will not put anything The numerical goal of pure migration.

The changes come after the UK Reform Party has achieved widespread gains In local elections In England earlier this month, before the Labor Party was presented to Mr. Kerr Starmer in opinion polls.

In a sign of recognition of the government at the political danger if they fail to drop immigration, Starmer repeated on Sunday his promise to “restore control and reduce immigration … with difficult new measures,” adding: “British workers – I have got your back.”

Cooper BBC told the closure of the care factor visa, along with other changes that mainly affect low -skilled jobs, will lead to a decrease in expatriates about 50,000 per year.

When asked whether the level of clear immigration should be less than 500,000 a year, Sky News told that he should “drop significantly”, indicating that the ministers will publish more measures to reduce the numbers.

The latest data, for the year until mid -2014, showed the net deportation of 728,000, but the budget responsibility office expects to drop the flows to less than half this level in the medium term as a result of the visa restrictions actually implemented by the previous government.

Cooper said that the recent changes will mean access to visas for non -graduate roles, which will be “strictly limited”, and it is only granted when there is strong evidence of a lack of government’s industrial strategy, and is linked to the efforts of British workers’ training and their recruitment.

In construction, for example, there will be a temporary list of professions where employers can rent them abroad to reduce labor shortages while 60,000 other workers are trained in the United Kingdom.

Chris Philip, Minister of Shadows, described the homeland as “50,000 small tablets” was not “enough”. He acknowledged that the Conservative Party took a “very late” action to treat immigration, which reached its climax above 900,000 in mid -2023 under the government of the former Conservative Party.

Cooper also hinted that the changes in the visa rules for international students graduating in the United Kingdom will be less radical than the fear of universities. Those who depend on their fees. She said that students will remain able to stay and work in the United Kingdom after completing their training courses, but universities are expected to do more to ensure compliance with the visa rules.

The closure of the care visa path will lead to an alarm of adult care providers, who face a chronic shortage of employees because financing pressures on local authorities leave them unable to raise wages. There were 131,000 vacancies-which represent more than 8 percent of all roles-in 2023-23, according to care skills, the Industry Development and Planning Authority in England.

“Where will these workers come from if there is no funding or the way of immigration?” Jane Townson, CEO of the Care Association for the home, said, adding that service providers “were deeply concerned that the government did not consider properly about what would happen to millions of people who depend on home care.”

Cooper BBC told that the additions to the current care factor visas will allow them, and the sector will continue to be employed from a group of about 10,000 migrants already in the United Kingdom “who came in the care factor visa … to jobs that were not already exist here or that were not the appropriate standards.”

She said that sponsorships “must employ from a group of people instead of employment from abroad.”

Cooper said this step will come alongside a “fair salary agreement” for care workers. She said, “We have seen this huge increase in the employment of care from abroad, but without addressing problems in the system,” which includes applicants in the UK low -wage roles.

But employers say they will have no way to increase wages without a basic reform of the way the care sector is funded.

The review system, which was announced earlier this year by the Minister of Health, Wes Stretting, will take the initial results next year, but will not be completed Until 2028.

Richard Tess, deputy leader of reform in the United Kingdom, said that the public was “ready, angry” about the level of legal and illegal immigration, who said that his party came first in the local elections.

He said that the government’s plan was able to fail and argued that the “separate and dedicated immigration administration” with “new people who already believes in the sovereign border issue” is required.