Migrant Workers: Social Services

(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will add care staff to the shortage occupation list.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 14th November 2016

Tier 2, the route for skilled non-EEA workers, is reserved for graduate level occupations only. Nurses, including those working in social care, are included on the Shortage Occupation List. Care workers do not meet the minimum skills requirement for Tier 2.

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