health and social care

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA care worker has appeared in court after she was caught on camera abusing a pensioner at his home. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA government crackdown on visas for overseas workers could put overstretched care homes under threat of closure, with tens of thousands fewer staff coming…

Reading Time: < 1 minute“I’ve lost everything. Every day I’m stressed.” Jamil, a migrant worker from Bangladesh, says he has been left stranded and in limbo…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritish social care providers will have to prioritise hiring foreign care workers already in the country before recruiting from overseas, the government…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCare home bosses have been ordered to hire foreign workers already living in the UK before recruiting from overseas. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo care workers have been jailed after subjecting more than ten elderly and vulnerable residents to ‘humiliating and degrading’ treatment. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHigher care provider fees and stretched council budgets are leading to a “doom loop” for adult social care where there is less…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNigerians living in the United Kingdom have protested against rising cases of certificate of sponsorship scams in the country.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigrant workers who come to the UK to bolster the country’s care system are having to share beds, sleep rough, and are…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA care home nurse is to be struck off because “wide-ranging competency and language issues” were putting patients at risk.  Read More