Yvette Cooper on BBC's Sunday with Laura KuenssbergYvette Cooper has announced the government’s plan to close care worker visas in a bid to cut down on migration.But many critics have pointed out that there’s a shortage of employees in the social care sector.The home secretary told the BBC that it was “time to end” care worker recruitment from abroad with 50,000 fewer visas for lower-skilled workers.The minister also told Times Radio today that “uncontrolled, especially lower-skilled migration” is “undermining the economy”, and that she is going to set out a plan to get it down.“This huge increase in net migration has happened at the same time as we’ve also seen a big increase in UK residents not being in work, not being in training and being on benefits instead,” she explained.But, as the House of Commons’ own research from October shows, an average of 8.3% of social care roles were vacant in 2023/24.That’s the equivalent
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