professor brian bell is the chair of the independent committee of immigration experts, which advises government. in december 2021, it recommended allowing more overseas ca re staff. it also said the government should fund higher pay to encourage more british workers. we said the only way to deal with the problem in the long run was to pay care workers properly. two years after we submitted our report, we've had no response from the government and care worker pay hasn't changed. if they'd bitten the bullet and done the right thing for care workers, they would have also have had an effect on immigration. the government says it's investing in better training and clearer career paths for care workers. after brexit, most people coming to work or live in the uk need a visa. last year, the government issued more than 1.4 million visas. 146,000 of them went to health and social care workers. another 203,000 went to their dependants. combined, that was around a quarter of the 1.4 million visas. they're big numbers and, to the care sector, they've made a big difference. but after brexit, they

professor brian bell is the chair of the independent committee of immigration experts, which advises government. in december 2021, it recommended allowing more overseas care staff. it also said the government should fund higher pay to encourage more british workers. we said the only way to deal with the problem in the long run was to pay care workers properly. two years after we submitted our report, we've had no response from the government and care worker pay hasn't changed. if they'd bitten the bullet and done the right thing for care workers, they would have also have had an effect on immigration. the government says it's investing in better training and clearer career paths for care workers. after brexit, most people coming to work or live in the uk need a visa. last year, the government issued more than 1.4 million visas. 146,000 of them went to health and social care workers. another 203,000 went to their dependants. combined, that was around a quarter of the 1.4 million visas. they're big numbers and, to the care sector, they've made a big difference. but after brexit, they m