- Safiu Kehinde
The United Kingdom’s Home Office has announced ban on recruitment of Social Care workers from overseas.
This was made known in the Immigration White Paper published on the UK’s official website on Monday.
As contained in the 82-page publication summarized on the website, the UK government announced end to overseas recruitment for social care visas.
This, according to the Home Office, is in line with the government’s wider reforms to skills thresholds.
The ban will see social care visas to new applications from abroad closed.
However, the Home Office, disclosed that it will permit visa extensions and in-country switching for social workers who are already in the UK, pending the transition period until 2028 when the workforce strategy is being developed and rolled out.
The office also seek to strengthen the requirements that all sponsoring institutions must meet in order to recruit international students.
This, according to the publication, will be achieved through the introduction of new interventions for sponsors who are close to failing their sponsor duties.
The sponsors will be reportedly be placed on an action plan designed to improve their compliance while imposing limits on the number of new international students they can recruit.
The UK government also announced plan to reduce the ability for graduates to remain in the UK after their studies to a period of 18 months.