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Immigration is a ‘perfect storm’ for adult social care

Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has written to the Home Secretary asking her to reconsider future immigration plans.

This comes after the Home Office rejected recommendations by its Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to open UK borders to foreign senior care workers at the end of the Brexit transition period.

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Unsafe care contributed to vulnerable woman’s injury

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Call for government to protect care home visiting rights

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New care coalition calls for action on low pay

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Doctors call for ‘test and trace’ cash to be diverted to local services

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A social worker on safeguarding during a pandemic

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Marie Curie will help care homes prepare for future coronavirus outbreaks

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Discharged hospital patients not receiving follow-up care

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Ruth Allen: government’s Covid response sidelined social care

Ruth Allen, the CEO at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), reflects on the urgent and painful failures set out in As if Expendable, Amnesty International’s report into the effect of coronavirus on care homes.