Care providers have said that the government is snatching the “lifeline” of foreign recruitment without fixing the problems that make it difficult to recruit UK employees.

The Prime Minister, Sir Kir Stmper on Monday announced reforms in immigration, including plans to abolish the recruitment of care workers from abroad.

Even employees are being brought from other countries, official estimates show that there were 131,000 vacancies in social care in England last year.

Care companies said some services would struggle to survive without international recruitment.

“The sector is pushing itself with declining resources, rising costs and rising vacancies,” Prof. England Professor Martin Green said, who describes himself as the largest representative body for independent care providers.

He said, “(International recruitment) now without any warning, no funding, and no alternative, it is not just short -sighted – it is cruel,” he said.

Sir Kir said that visa changes were part of a drive “to significantly reduce the immigration” and the government wanted to control a migration system “selective and fair”.

The government said that care providers can expand the visa for existing employees and can already recruit migrants in Britain who are not getting jobs yet. It also promised a new fair agreement for care employees and wanted companies to recruit and train more than the UK.

However, Dr. of the Homecare Association. Jane Townson said the government was “presenting” changes “in a vacuum, as a fair salary agreement is a long way and” there is no plan to distribute the employees caring for our country. “

Social care has been in crisis for years, squeezed with the finance of the council of services, important staff-shortage and increasing demand from an aging population. Plans for improvement are repeatedly delayed.

While care workers were clapped with health workers during the epidemic, who did not translate to improvement in salary or status.

Around 1.7 million people work in social care in England, according to Kaushal for Care, the official body that monitors the workforce. It is often above the minimum or minimum wage job, which has little recognition of the increasing responsibility and complexity of assistant employees providing old and disabled people.

Putting it clearly, if anyone can do more work, for example, in a supermarket for less, less, loud hours, then this is the option that many will be chosen.

Post-Covid, some employees left care work because they felt that other people who still loved the job, felt that they could not increase the cost of life.

Between April 2021 and March 2022, social care vacancies reached a record high level of 165,000, an increase of 52% a year ago.

By December 2021, the warnings of imminent collapse inspired Boris Johnson’s conservative government to take care of them, making it easy for companies to see employees abroad.

The recruitments had to earn a minimum of £ 20,480 per year to qualify for the visa, and they could bring family with them.

Foreign recruitment had increased rapidly – 80,000 people in 2022/23 arrived Britain to work in care and in 23/24, there were another 105,000 visas.

Several care companies said that there was a difference between providing and collapse in those employees. However, this new route was also misused in Britain. For example, some people were exploited, making thousands of middlemen paid for travel and sponsorship certificates.

The home office says that 470 care companies have a license for the recruitment of international employees who have been canceled since 2022. It is estimated that around 40,000 employees have been displaced. Companies say that many must have already found alternative care work.

In March 2024, Rishi Sunak’s orthodox government tightened visa requirements. This includes to say that the recruitments can no longer bring a family with them. This has caused a significant decline in the number of care workers coming from abroad.

In the year by December 2024, according to the government, 9,500 visas were awarded to people entering the UK to provide “Careful Personal Services”.

However, the lack of staff in four years was the most intense, relatively low Britain people have changed to encourage people to work in care. There is talk of an ongoing government funded recruitment campaign and need to improve the salary and situation of employees, but fear solutions from many workers go a long way.

Independent Casey Commission began work last month to prepare plans for adult social care. It has been described by ministers as once in a generation opportunity to cross party politics and to create consensus on the future of the region. Its first update is next year and its final report is till 2028.

At a time when NHS is struggling, social care is more important than ever because it can keep weak people out of the hospital and support patients when returning home.

Many care workers would say that this is an incredibly rewarding work and with the closure of foreign recruitment, the question is what changes are needed to encourage more people from Britain to play a role?