health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA national helpline for victims of modern slavery is reporting a steep rise in calls from overseas workers who came to the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne woman from Nigeria tells Sky News she paid £10,000 to an “agent” for a skilled worker visa on the promise of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of foreign care workers coming to Britain has more than tripled in the past year. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA carer who stole more than £9,000 from elderly people claimed “everyone there was taking money”, a court heard. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is a bitter November night and Anthony Mbare is shivering in a car in rural Wiltshire, south-west England, wait ing to…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the year to June 2023, 77,700 long-term work visas were granted to care workers – a six-fold increase from 12,300 in…

Reading Time: < 1 minute“I should be in a position of helping, not receiving aid,” says one Nigerian woman. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround one in five care homes is failing, shock figures reveal. Some 2,662 of 14,410 facilities under the jurisdiction of the Care…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMinisters have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation…