LONDON March 15: The UK government has announced the international recruitment fund for the adult social care sector, which made £15 million available to regional and sub regional partnerships to develop solutions to local challenges around the use of international recruitment and strengthen safeguards against exploitation.

The fund led to the development of 15 regional and sub regional partnerships covering all areas of England. These 15 partnerships have used the funding to develop and deliver support offers to adult social care providers in their respective areas to enable them to make use of international recruitment where this assists their workforce strategy. The funding has also been used by partnerships to provide support to international recruits to help them transition to working in the care system in England.

Over the past year, alongside an increase in international recruitment of care staff UK has also seen a rise in reports of unethical employment practices. The government is committed to continuing to use international recruitment to support the adult social care workforce but wants to increase its focus on ensuring the ethical and sustainable employment of international recruits within the care system.

Here is the full list of regional hubs set up for displaced care workers all over the UK compiled by this website (Subject to Change). Please visit the websites, read the process and email them with your query.

For example, an email should be like. “Dear, I have come to know that the UK government has set up regional hubs to support displaced care workers. I am a care worker and my company has lost their sponsorship and I am without a job. Can you please help me to with finding another job. Name and contact number, care home where you worked, details of any letters you received from your employer or Home Office”.

Another email could be that you got terminated from your care job. You can tell them that you got terminated and need help to find another sponsor or employer. You can ask any question by politely enquiring by providing them with your query and they will reply.

Please be aware this is only for guidance only and no money should be paid to anyone for these services and therefore please do make contacts with these agencies DIRECT. 

North Central London (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Islington, Haringey) – CLICK HERE

North West London (Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Westminster, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) – CLICK HERE

South East London Hampshire Hub (Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton, and Surrey), Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire), East Sussex Partners in Care (ESPIC), (East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton & Hove), Kent Integrated Care Alliance (KiCA) Kent and Medway – CLICK HERE

North East London (Barking & Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) CLICK HERE  Or Email: NEL.IRSupport@havering.gov.uk

South West London Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames Wandsworth and Sutton – CLICK HERE

East Midlands Lincolnshire, Derby & Derbyshire, Nottingham & Nottinghamshire, North & West Northamptonshire, Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland – CLICK HERE

West Midlands Shropshire, Staffordshire, Birmingham, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire CLICK HERE

Also Click Here For West Midlands

Yorkshire and Humber Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, East Ridings of Yorkshire, Kingston Upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield and York CLICK HERE

Greater Manchester – Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Tameside, Stockport, Manchester, Trafford, Salford, Wigan. Email nhsgm.gmadviceandsupport@nhs.net.(Based on your postcode, they will direct you to the right team to offer support tailored to your needs).

Cheshire & Mersey Alsager, Birkenhead, Chester, Crewe, Congleton, Disley, Ellesmere Port, Formby, Kirkby, Knutsford, Liverpool, Macclesfield, Maghull, Neston, Northwich, Poynton, Prescot, Runcorn, Southport, St Helens, Warrington, Widnes and Wilmslow, Cheshire East, Cheshire West, Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Warrington and Wirral. Email nhsgm.gmadviceandsupport@nhs.net or cminternationalrecru@warrington.gov.uk or CLICK TO COMPLETE THIS FORM

Lancashire, Westmorland & Furness Click to Know More or Email: sponsored.support@durham.gov.uk or email  IRSupport@lancashire.gov.uk

Lancashire and South Cumbria Social Care Training Hub – CLICK HERE

Norfolk County Council CLICK HERE

If you live in Essex, Suffolk, Southend, Thurrock or Hertfordshire Email EssexSuffolkHertsIR@essex.gov.uk

If you live in Cambridgeshire Email irsupportcambs@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

If you live in Norfolk Email internationalsupport@norfolkcareassociation.org.uk

If you live in Milton Keynes Email IWSupport@worksforus.org.uk

If you live in Central Bedfordshire, Bedford Borough or Luton Email IR.DISPLACEDWORKERSUPPORT@BLCB.CO.UK

If you live in Peterborough Email IRSupport@peterborough.gov.uk

Shropshire Council and Telford & Wrekin Council CLICK HERE

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