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Priti Patel's points based immigration system has put care homes in staffing crisis

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Care homes and catering outlets face massive staff shortages because of the red tape surrounding Priti Patel’s points based immigration system.

It will take nine months to complete the paperwork to get clearance for EU migrants to work here once freedom of movement is switched off on 31st December.

So the Home Secretary wants firms to register now if they hope to hire degree-level staff from Europe in January next year. But care homes rely on 90,000 EU migrants with another 700,000 in the hospitality trade.

And delays will be even worse for them. That’s because they employ mostly unskilled workers and Ms Patel has ruled that they can’t start to recruit until January at the earliest.

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