Migration Policy

The Care Worker Visa Disaster

How emergency recruitment became a permanent policy failure — tracing how the care worker visa expanded far beyond Home Office planning, how the sponsor market failed to keep pace with the route, and the settlement and fiscal legacy left behind.

Charles Talbot & David Shipley
Cambridge Circus Research
2026
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The Care Worker Visa Disaster — Talbot & Shipley (2026)
Cambridge Circus Research  ·  Migration Policy
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