Foreign social care staff to be welcomed to UK amid concerns omicron will wipe out workers

MayBee70

Why would someone uproot their whole family for 12 months and move to a country that has made them feel unwelcome in the past? They’ll have to be paid a lot more than they were before as an incentive. Will we be welcoming seasonal crop pickers next summer as well given that us oldies decided we didn’t want to do the work?

Us oldies did. do the work love, back in the day. Did you.

GagaJo

True. And in all likelihood, by the time the visa is through, the crisis will have passed.

Very unlikely to be cleared. The crisis in care worker shortage has been exacerbated by Brexit and Covid but has been growing for years and years, whilst ignored by successive governments of various political persuasions ...sadly!

Ah Brexit! (Sarcasm intended)

I hope they will not use them and discard them later

Care work is not something that can, or should, be done by just anyone.
Presumably the government do realise that or they'd be trying to shove all the jobseekers into it.

In my area, most care workers are employed by the local authority and it is advertising for people in the area who have any previous experience to help them.

Blow me, I’ve just realised it was Owen Paterson that suggested that!!!

Why would someone uproot their whole family for 12 months and move to a country that has made them feel unwelcome in the past? They’ll have to be paid a lot more than they were before as an incentive. Will we be welcoming seasonal crop pickers next summer as well given that us oldies decided we didn’t want to do the work?

Brexit isn’t working..

We had a crisis pre Covid and pre Brexit. There certainly don't seem to be many ^They're stealing our jobs" Brexiters rushing to fill the gaps so hopefully we will get some of the overseas workers back.

True. And in all likelihood, by the time the visa is through, the crisis will have passed.

There'll be so much red tape for employers when applying for visas to bring in staff, plus the cost of flying in people from across the world.