{"id":75003,"date":"2025-05-07T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75003"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:00:10","slug":"care-homes-under-threat-as-family-visa-crackdown-blocks-100000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/07\/care-homes-under-threat-as-family-visa-crackdown-blocks-100000-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Care homes under threat as family visa crackdown blocks 100,000 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EcCRl.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Applications for Britain\u2019s health and care worker visa are at a record low after care workers were prevented from bringing children and other dependants with them to the UK (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A government crackdown\u00a0<a title=\"UK visa applications plummet following strict rule change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/uk-visa-applications-immigration-figures-b2731004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">on visas for overseas workers could put overstretched care\u00a0<\/a>homes under threat of closure, with tens of thousands fewer staff coming to the UK,\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em> can reveal.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/care-homes-under-threat-as-family-visa-crackdown-blocks-100000-workers\/ar-AA1EcJRC?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A government crackdown\u00a0on visas for overseas workers could put overstretched care\u00a0homes under threat of closure, with tens of thousands fewer staff coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-social-care"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Carer-at-work.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75004,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75003\/revisions\/75004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}