Cllr Huw Thomas stated the UK Authorities’s plans to limit oversees recruitment of care employees is “definitely a matter of concern”
The Labour chief of Cardiff Council stated he’s involved about UK Authorities immigration plans that might have an effect on social care within the metropolis. Cllr Huw Thomas spoke about plans to limit oversees recruitment of care employees at a constructing topping out ceremony in Grangetown on Friday, June 6.
The UK Authorities stated its plan, which is a part of the lately revealed immigration white paper, is aimed toward stopping carers from oversees being topic to “shameful ranges of abuse and exploitation”.
Nevertheless, unions, care businesses and councils have come out in criticism of the transfer which they are saying will exacerbate the stress the care sector is already below. By no means miss a Cardiff story and signal as much as our publication right here.
When requested how involved he was concerning the plans, Cllr Thomas stated: “I believe it’s definitely a matter of concern.
“There are migrant employees within the care sector in Cardiff doing extremely essential work in very tough circumstances.
“We need to help them and as a council we’re working with commerce unions to help that work drive.
“What that is meant over the past couple of years is that {the marketplace} for domiciliary care… is definitely fairly resilient in Cardiff.
“I believe if there could be modifications… which are proposed to be launched, that might weaken the resilience of the supply of domiciliary care.
“It’s a concern. We’re feeding that concern into Authorities for his or her consideration.”
A Cardiff Council official informed councillors at a scrutiny committee assembly in February 2023 that the native authority was having points with recruiting social care employees.
An advert posted on the council’s Fb web page in Might 2025 stated it presently has “vacancies in various care roles”.
In a press release revealed on Might 11, the UK Authorities stated some carers in search of work within the UK arrived to seek out themselves “saddled with debt”, being handled unfairly and discovering the roles they had been promised did not exist.
The Welsh Native Authorities Affiliation (WLGA) has additionally come out in criticism of the plans.
WLGA spokesperson for Well being and Social Care, Cllr Charlie McCoubrey, stated: “Councils have lengthy struggled to recruit social care employees, particularly in rural and coastal areas.
“The Welsh Authorities’s Actual Residing Wage has helped, however worldwide recruitment has been an essential a part of preserving companies going.
“These proposals danger shutting off an important supply of social care employees on the very second native companies are below excessive stress.
“Councils are working arduous to help individuals to dwell with dignity and independence – however this is dependent upon having a workforce in place.
“Eradicating this feature with no absolutely funded plan to develop the home workforce is a big danger.
“It should take time and funding to construct a resilient, sustainable care workforce.
“Within the meantime, we worry the implications can be felt by the individuals who rely most on help – older individuals, individuals with disabilities, and unpaid carers.
“Workforce planning should mirror the truth on the bottom.
“Native authorities are uniquely positioned to know the wants of their communities, and their insights should form nationwide choices.”
