‘Sold a dream’: migrant workers at children’s care chain left without pay for months

Many nurses from India were recruited to work in children’s care services with Cambian, but some feel the promises they were made have not been kept. Photograph: Alamy

Nurses hired from abroad to work for one of Britain’s biggest social care chains have been left in debt and are in some cases suicidal after being stranded without pay for months.

They have also been paid lower wages than they were told they would receive and were in some cases given false promises about their accommodation and employment terms, an Observer investigation has found.