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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Less than 4% of exploited care workers helped by UK government scheme

A social care worker helping an elderly man out of a chair
Thousands of people immigrated to the UK during Covid to find work in the social care industry. Photograph: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images

Less than 4% of exploited care workers have reported finding new work in a multimillion-pound government scheme designed to rematch them with new employers.

Analysis by the Work Rights Centre found just 3.4% of the 28,000 exploited migrant care workers signposted to a service to find them new jobs had reported being rematched with a new employer, while 131,000 social care vacancies remain unfilled.

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