International recruitment regional fund for the adult social care sector 2025 to 2026
Guidance on the 拢12.5 million regional fund to support migrant care workers impacted by sponsor non-compliance or unethical practice and to reduce poor employment practices.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for regional and sub-regional partnerships that deliver the international recruitment regional fund. It sets out the aims of the fund and the conditions for partnerships to access the grant. 聽
Tackling unethical international recruitment employment practices in the adult social care sector is a priority for this government. The main aims of the fund in 2025 to 2026 are for regional partnerships to:聽
- support those impacted by non-compliant sponsors or unethical practice into new ethical, sponsored employment in the adult social care sector聽
- engage with adult social care providers to encourage recruitment of migrant care workers impacted by non-compliant sponsors 聽
- support work to prevent and respond to exploitative employment issues
Updates to this page
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Indicative grant funding allocations have been updated, so that 25% of funding is based on revocation levels per region from 2024 to 2025.
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First published.