Home Office granted 275 care worker certificates of sponsorship after ‘false’ application

The report was produced by David Neal, who was sacked last month after he was embroiled in a row with the government over concerns he was raising about the Home Office. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

A damning inspection report has found multiple failures in the Home Office’s system for awarding care worker visas, including 275 certificates of sponsorship granted to a care home without its knowledge and “using false information”.

The report found the whole regime of allowing care homes to sponsor visas to bring in workers from overseas was “shocking” in its implementation, and the net effect was “a system that invited large numbers of low-skilled workers to this country who are at risk from exploitation”.