This is an important explanation of the government's plans in relation to care worker visas.
A major aim is to tackle abuse & exploitation by rogue organisations, 470 who have lost their ability to sponsor workers since 2022.
The people they sponsored were left with large debts & mistreated.
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A major aim is to tackle abuse & exploitation by rogue organisations, 470 who have lost their ability to sponsor workers since 2022.
The people they sponsored were left with large debts & mistreated.
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As a result, we have 40k displaced people who have arrived in the UK on existing visas, but have no job.
These people and anyone else on existing visas can still be employed, change employers and can extend their visa.
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Time will tell, but if we are employing migrants on a need basis it could work 🤷
Bit of a juggling act though.
Fewer care sector managers who don't themselves do any care work might also help...can you imagine a headteacher not doing any teachers (oh yes, they now run academy chains...)
So we need to recruit them first.
New visa rules have £12.82 min wage. The nat min wage is £12.21. Employers who can sponsor, may not.
My issue is the rhetoric around care work and migration
It’s all desperate Reform appeasing language
If he won’t ever have the guts to stand up to Reform on anything or stop/change their sickening narrative he may as well hand the keys in
Not exactly things reform would say.
But that won’t be picked up by the usual suspects
I just don’t get the need to constantly pander to Reform instead of calling them out/changing the narrative
It alienates moderate voters and creates the impression we’re not wanted by Labour
This is how the electorate sees immigration, should they do nothing?
I was hoping for focus on other issues too particularly after the local election horror
But it just feels like they’re more focused on appeasing Reform rather than opposing them
They really could do more to help themselves.
This isn't our media. It's the Government.
I was just pointing out that a better headline on https://Gov.uk that reflected the White Paper's contents might have avoided all of this rubbish.
All these details were in there and clearly explained.
How do we tackle the media (and the people) from ignoring that and only sharing partial facts to get more people outraged?
And this is an example. Labour try to deal with immigrants being abused and the usual suspects scream “Labour is copying Reform!” without reading past a Daily Mail headline.
Tough issue for Comms team, need more simple messaging on FB, Instagram, newspaper ads etc?
But we need comms people to be *everywhere*. To create short clips, shareable content that summarises plans.
Some of us read the articles on the .gov website but many many more won’t, and they’ll rely on the clips created by the media, sadly.
They need to step into the 21st century. Use bot farms, influencers, whatever it takes to get their message out on a minute by minute basis. It’s like a school project at the moment….
This should be what Ministers talk about on the TV interviews.
A real comms failure.