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MAC recommendation on senior care workers and registered managers
Following strong arguments made by UKHCA, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended that senior care workers and registered managers be placed on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL). Nursing assistants and auxiliaries will also be added to the SOL.
While careworkers and care coordinators have not been added to the SOL, UKHCA is encouraged by the remarks the MAC made about the need for additional funding for social care.
"The MAC has argued for some years now that funding social care to a level that enables higher wages to be paid, and consequently makes jobs more attractive to the domestic workforce, is the right way to address the workforce issues in the sector, rather than relying on migrant workers to fill the gaps. The risks of this funding increase not happening in a timely manner are stark. If that does not occur, or occurs with substantial delay, we would expect the end of freedom of movement to increase the pressure on the social care sector, something that would be particularly difficult to understand at a time when so many care occupations are central to the COVID-19 pandemic frontline response."
