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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

Government to close care worker visa for overseas recruitment, says Cooper

The Government is going to close the care worker visa for overseas recruitment as part of its immigration reforms, the Home Secretary has said.

Yvette Cooper said rules around the visa will be changed to “prevent” it being used to “recruit from abroad”, but that companies will still be able to recruit from a pool of thousands of people who came to the UK on care visas for jobs that did not exist.

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