Overseas Workers Propping up England’s Care System, Report Reveals

Skills for Care said over 400,000 care staff had left their jobs within a year with international workers flying in to fill in the shortage.

Care home resident Dot Hendy holds her daughter Louise's hand for the first time since March after Louise successfully passed a Rapid COVID-19 Test immediately before meeting her mother at the King Charles Court Care Home, Falmouth, England, on Nov. 18, 2020. Hugh Hastings/Getty Images

Overseas workers are holding together England’s care sector, new data shows.

Skills for Care, the workforce planning body for the sector, said an estimated 70,000 people took up care jobs in the country after arriving in the UK in the year to March 2023.