The Guardian

JUNE 2, 2024

Exclusive: Experts raise alarm over ‘national scandal’ that has hallmarks of trafficking and modern slavery ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain What are the problems with the UK visa system for care work? British social care agencies have been accused of exploiting foreign workers , leaving people living on the breadline as they struggle to pay off debts run up while trying to secure jobs that fail to materialise.

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The Guardian

JUNE 2, 2024

People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa system UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps What are the problems with the UK visa system for care work? Akhil Jenny was living in a small town in southern India, struggling with crippling debts, when a work contact offered him a way out.

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The Guardian

JUNE 2, 2024

Foreign workers say they have faced financial exploitation amid attempts to ease chronic staff shortages in the sector UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain Dozens of foreign workers in social care in the UK say they have faced financial exploitation, paying thousands of pounds to secure full-time jobs and often finding little or no work available when they arrive.

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