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UK Government Migration Advisory Committee Consultation

Important consultation on whether employers wish to continue recruiting residential and day care managers from outwith the EEA.

The UK Government’s ‘Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)’ has recently issued a call for evidence on its migration policies.  One of these is about the ways that employers can recruit migrant workers from outwith the European Economic Area (EEA). There is an annual limit on the number of workers that can enter the UK via this route.  The current consultation seeks views on the limit for 2012.  Included in this, the government seeks views on the implications of raising the qualification threshold for entry via what is called Tier 2. This proposal in effect may mean that employers would no longer be able to recruit "residential and day care managers" from outwith the EEA.

The consultation and covering letter can be accessed from the MAC's website: www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/mac  The closing date for responses is 21 December 2011.
Scottish Care will be responding to MAC and we would welcome you replying to two questions.  We will gather these and respond to the government.
We would be particularly keen to hear from you if your service employs “residential and day care managers” or “senior care workers” from outwith the European Economic Area. We’d also be keen to hear from you if you have difficulty recruiting workers to fill these posts.
In order to respond to the consultation, can you please answer the following:

Q1:  How would being unable to recruit residential and day care managers from outwith the EEA impact on service delivery in the future?

Note: Remember, due to the challenges of an ageing population, the increased demand for social care and fewer people of working age to meet this demand, it is important to get a sense from social care providers if they envisage a growing demand to recruit from outwith the EEA in the coming years.  Or will there be no impact?

Q2:  Due to being unable to recruit senior social care workers from outwith the EEA, how have you overcome this?

Note: The immigration cap level set by the government has been heavily undersubscribed and this could be used as evidence to further reduce the limit.  One factor behind this low uptake could be the reduction of eligible occupations.  It is important to gauge how the exclusion of senior social care workers from the Shortage Occupation List has impacted on services.  How have service providers overcome this e.g. have they been left with lengthy job vacancies or have they increased their recruitment of migrants from within the EU and UK worker? Or has there been no impact?
Can you please send your response to these two questions by Friday 16 December to
Thank you so much for your help with this.

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