What is the Shortage Occupation List, and what does it mean for care providers?

Manager Laurence Keir-Thomas discusses the important visa changes in response to the acute staff shortages being experienced across the UK’s social care sector in this Home Care Insight article.

On Christmas Eve the government announced that care workers will be temporarily added to the UK’s visa Shortage Occupation List (SOL). This will allow care workers, care assistants, and home care workers to qualify for visa sponsorship and the Health and Care Visa.

The policy change, expected this month, follows the publication of the Migration Advisory Committee’s annual report in December 2021 which recommended that care workers and home carers be added to the Health and Care Worker Visa route and to the SOL immediately.

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