‘It Will Be Horrendous’: Care Crisis Warning as UK Ends Overseas Recruitment

‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment

Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector

What will ending overseas recruitment mean for adult social care?

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government’s decision to stop adult social care providers from recruiting staff from overseas – at some point later this year – has sent shockwaves through the sector. According to provider bodies, it risks creating “extreme workforce shortages” and consequent harm to older and disabled people (the Homecare Association), and was a “shor…