Immigration essential for ASC
Oxfordshire, along with many other parts of the UK, is dependent on a sponsored workforce providing valuable and valued care in our adult social care services. As a county which has around 1 in 3 workers recruited from overseas and delivering up to 50% of all home care hours each week, tightening immigration rules will have a devastating impact on efficient and and effective services.
Adult social care works with working-age adults and older people and it prevents people from going into hospital unnecessarily, whilst also enabling quicker discharge back home. Adult social care provides carers with a break, or works alongside them to enable them to work and contribute to the local economy.
It is so many things to so many people, without which the UK economy would not function: our sponsored workforce is a vital part of it.
