{"id":88039,"date":"2026-04-21T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88039"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:42:52","slug":"uks-migration-crackdown-risks-care-home-staffing-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/uks-migration-crackdown-risks-care-home-staffing-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s migration crackdown risks care home staffing crunch"},"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\/AA21mgKG.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=378&amp;y=145&amp;s=299&amp;d=102\" alt=\"Deputy manager Kuldeep Singh interacts with elderly residents at Applegarth Care Home, as the care sector braces for crisis over the British government's plans to reduce migration numbers, in Maidenhead, Britain, March 11, 2026. REUTERS\/Isabel Infantes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Government plans to make it harder for migrant workers to settle permanently in Britain risk a staffing crunch in care homes for elderly people, where one employee in three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-s-migration-crackdown-risks-care-home-staffing-crunch\/ar-AA21mgKM?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e746163bfe4986a09e4481647efd40&amp;ei=25\">\u00a0Read 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>Government plans to make it harder for migrant workers to settle permanently in Britain risk a staffing crunch in care homes for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88039","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\/Home-care-worker.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039","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=88039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88040,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88039\/revisions\/88040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}