Government's decision on overseas care worker recruitment is a major blow for the sector and unpaid carers

Commenting on the Government’s clampdown on recruiting care workers from overseas, Carers Trust’s CEO, Kirsty McHugh, said:

“Today’s decision by the UK Government to make recruiting care workers even more challenging is a major blow to the social care sector. The Government cannot have it every which way.

"If the sector cannot recruit from abroad, the Government has to get behind a major national campaign to get Brits into these jobs. That also means providing the money, via local government, to pay a decent hourly rate for care.

“Otherwise, the people who will end up paying for these changes are the millions of unpaid carers and the over-stretched local organisations that support them.

"Unpaid carers are already being forced to plug the gaps in our crumbling social care system and may well be further pushed to the limit by these changes.”