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New rules to prioritise recruiting care workers in England
Employers will be required to prioritise recruiting international care workers already in England before recruiting from overseas.
Source: UK Visas & Immigration (www.gov.uk/government/news)
From:
Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Seema Malhotra MP and Stephen Kinnock MP
The cost of hiring overseas workers is set to increase – there’s still time to avoid it
Higher COS fees are coming, they will likely be accompanied by an uplift in the going rates for health and care staff.
In our latest blog we look in more detail at the changes, explore whether they make international recruitment less desirable and what providers can do to limit their impact.