Not enough money to do that unfortunately. Council carers cost £ 45 per hour . Private sector are paid £21 per hour . People are being abused … I’ve seen it and talked to them . By care companies run by people from the same countries that the migrant carers come from in most cases . It’s horrendous.
I spent 20 years working within the healthcare sector. In my time working as a healthcare assistant (10 years), I saw a dramatic change in turnover of staff, decreased pay rises, and increased working demand. Many staff felt broken both mentally and physically after 12 hour shifts and minimum wage. It's no wonder there is no demand to work in this country, and it's an absolute disgrace to hear that anybody working from overseas is being treated differently. As a whole, the care sector is broken. Private companies are raking profits for blood, sweat, and tears from its staff. It's both exploitation of the working person and capitalism.
You captured this verbatim. The UK does not have a system that encourages labour. You said it all with this "I saw a dramatic change in turnover of staff, decreased pay rises, and increased working demand." It is so sad how the law of economics was inducted into the care sector. Instead of increasing pay to encourage workers, they reduce pay and pay minimum wage, then turns around and demand more from you. It is a shame.
So danm true,I was hearing white folks disparage them,but they would not do the job they do,wiping bottoms emptying there bedpan,attending to there personal needs,it is about time the indigenous do them jobs,they should be grateful to them
They don’t want to pay the national minimum wage to British people so obviously if they can exploit cheap labour they will. As long as these care companies make profits
The care sector is awful.did it for a little while but glad to get out I would never do it again.the pay is horrendous no night shift pay lots of bullying and harassment.dont know how they get away with it
I guess it varies. My daughter works there and she really likes it. I’m constantly surprised how genuinely caring some of them are. Some places have bad reputations though, and some of those TV shows have recorded criminal behaviour.
Decades of Tory laws which are all meant to turn us ALL into slaves. Zero hours contracts - employment protection eroded. I was a bus driver and we were told the reason we couldn't get ANY pay rise AT ALL after 7 years of static wages (real time wage cut) was that the SHAREHOLDERS "wouldn't accept less than a 16 percent profit". 16 percent.
It’s not I work in care and the terrible bullying that takes place from management it’s unbelievable and they get away with exploiting and bullying care workers. Toxic management needs to be addressed by the government it’s terrible!
We know the workers are treated terribly in the care sector - White British ones, too! If the staff are all miserable or even living in fear of deportation, how can they care for the elderly, many of whom have to fork out thousands A MONTH for the "care" they receive.
Blacks suffer the most in all cases. If friends tell you about their horrendous experiences with some of these facilities you'd weep for them. Something has to change and the sooner the better!
Working I care for years, I can see how British staff are treating people from other countries, if they are white there is no issue but if black, brown there is a different outcome. People are treated like slaves it's shocking and so sad. The worst is the toxic culture between staff in the care industry it's absolutely shocking how people who supposedly are the best to look after your loved ones but it's usually groups of toxic people who usually resist.
it is 2024 and simply shocking - but we are making no attempts to stop genocides in front of our eyes anymore so perhaps we have lost our moral compass
' 'if they are white there is no issues ' you are sorely mistaken,I've worked for my current home care employer for 5 years & the way we have been badlytreated, including improper inadequate PPE during COVID,you would be amazed! It is not just foreign workers they are treating ALL employees like s@#t , you may ask why have I been with such a bad employer for so long, I contracted COVID during my work it's wrecked my health so not been physically able to find another job. Like tens of thousands of other frontline carers .
Private care sector runs their business as if it was any other type of business, they put nice messages of hope on the walls, make people believe everything is fine and they exploit and abuse workers massively it's just shocking and shameful.
I worked in a care home in ireland nenagh tipperary, rivervale Nursing Home they brought a lot of nurses from india and paid them 15 an hour!!!!.. the way they were treated was so bad.. and the director bringing them over was indian herself, a lot of them were on work visas so they couldnt leave .a lot of people might say 15 isnt bad but we have a minimum of 1600 rent a month in that area!!! Also the one humiliating them and bullying them was this director who was indian herself , the care sector is modern slavery and the private sector in elder care is a disgrace and takes advantage of both the elderly and carers and nurses.
I used to work in care years ago and we were never appreciated by their families or our managers either. I stopped working in any job that had to do with care because they expect so much from one person than they gave back. I've never been back since
Unfortunately, it is the same in many countries but many suffer in silence. If people were truthful, there are a few issues of concern here: 1) Families who are unable to care for their elderly, 2) Work agencies that hire not the most experienced people 3) Rogue agencies that dupe people that they will get paid and have jobs for these people 4) Workers who are sincere, licensed and want to work, do work, but are not paid because they are "foreign" and are trapped as their visas and work permit fall under the pilfering rogue agencies. Where does one begin to fix this issue as the need is there: many elderly need 24/7 care.
I worked in a care home for 5 years. It very much depends on the management. The third manager did a brilliant job and turned the home around getting rid of toxic staff. But the upper management are all about money, she since left.
There's actually a lot of issues with the quality of care given also. Speaking as a family member of a service user. They don't know what they are doing half the time, training and safe guarding isn't good enough.
@@balorklub I've looked after my son for 28 years. I am no longer able to because of my age and own health issues it's not best for either of us. Don't be so small minded. Your comment really exposes your true character and its people like you who work with the vulnerable. Very worrying.
I am a service user as well. Totally agree. My agency has recruited around 50 new stuff from abroad, Most of him are literally waitresses and maids back home. They try, but it kind of defeats the whole point of skilled worker scheme
Exactly, most of them provided fraudulent certificates and paid some people in care sectors from their countries to do references for them, lied about having experience some knew the angencies emplying them where bogus but they just wanted a way to get to Uk 'legally'.
@Channel 4 News We are thrilled to see your channel covering this topic. May you please help us, the issue is bigger than this. Care provision in private homes is not regulated, therefore, there isn't any public body responsible for protecting domiciliary and Live-In carers. Our aim is to bring paid carers together, so that, with one voice we can approach the care sector stakeholders for reform. Our project, the Carers Association Against Modern Slavery (CAAMS), was introduced for this very purpose.
It's mordern day slavery indeed!! There's a care home in Barnsley that gave us COS as healthcare assistants. Left to me, those guys need to be thrown in JAIL for abuse, trauma, and all sorts. 12 hour night shift with no break. Then the racism against black care workers is sickening!! That care home is so terrible that BBC did a story about them. They should al be in jail!
The government benefits financially from the fines levied on these businesses, while the victims of exploitation receive no restitution. This is truly unfortunate.
Honestly, I feel the home office did not do their homework properly. They gave licences to companies not checking whether they had jobs or not. How would one know from Africa or any part of the world tell if these companies are legit or not. Why must I suffer for the negligence of the authorities that did not do their homework. People are here whole heartedly to work and restrictions are put on them. Why recruiting more from overseas when those here are not given jobs because of restrictions on their visa? Is it that the home office is just taking advantage of vulnerable people from Africa looking for greener pastures? Just thinking aloud!!
Most of them don't want to work, where I was working we employed some of these international carers and they always call in sick or come up with one thing or the other that hinders them from working. Secondly some of them lied about having experience they do not have any,some are just a bit slow on understanding the work ethics needed for looking after vulnerable people. Those doing domiciliary work their contrct says they need to drive but they decided its not necessary then they complain about not getting enough work but they forget they have refused to comply with their work requirement to drive. Dont forget most of them just wanted to be in Uk because they thought we grow Money from trees or pick it up from the street without breaking a sweat. These people are not all innocent.
Even African independence is not over, they just change titles. One day we black people will learn that no matter what they say they don't see us as human.
With all due respects to the makers of this item: I am 70 years old. As a Black Boy under apartheid more than 60 years ago, my aunt, a qualified nurse - and some of her peers - left South Africa to work at hospitals in the UK while we as Black South Africans had little or inadequate medical care despite the fact that our parents' taxes had paid for their education and qualification at "schools of excellence" including the world famous Groote Schuur Hospital where the world's first heart transplant was performed. This exploitative scam - a cancerous growth within the NHS - we always refered to as "The Brain Drain!" Items such as these should include a historical note! Thank you for reading my comment.
The NHS didn't force anybody to leave South Africa, they simply provided the opportunity. It is a huge shame but economic migration happens in all sectors.
In today's competitive environment, it is essential for the South African government to offer adequate compensation to its healthcare professionals in order to mitigate the issue of brain drain. Furthermore, it is important to recognise that individuals do not solely relocate for higher salaries; many seek opportunities to experience different cultures and environments. For instance, healthcare workers from the United Kingdom may choose to pursue employment in Australia, and vice versa.
@@CaamsCarers : If the UK government would invest in the NHS then UK professionals will not seek employment elsewhere. Once again Developing nations are exploited.
If you support the idea of foreign care workers, you support poverty for care workers. Many experienced native care workers now work in other sectors(I know 5 personally) because care providers can keep the wages down with labour on tap from abroad. If migration stopped tomorrow, they would find the money to pay £15-17 an hour, they pay agencies up to £25 domestically. The idea that natives don't want to do the work is absolutely nonsense, many MPs and lords sit on boards and/or have shares in care companies.
After employing foreigners some English staff are threatened by companies not being diverse and feels like they are left out yet they don’t apply for these jobs you wonder who faults it is ?
If agencies are getting paid for person to just show up ,in many cases agencies not vetting properly ppl ,just recruit... its just money for them... most of time without even paying taxes because registered in tax heavens ... if they making buck out of it... why wont nhs would have their own agency... to make sure everything is done correctly...
Should train our own stop bringing overseas people who are exploited and add to the problem. The recruiters and companies responsible should be punished. The laws are chaotic in UK too many loopholes.
Most care home chains in the uk aren’t owned by British nationals and they make more money having a chain of care homes than if they were to have a chain of Hilton hotels. It’s purely profits before people. The residents suffer and so do the British employees as well as employees from abroad on sponsorship visa’s.
Taking care of racist people's family members while their own elderly parents and other vulnerable family members are suffering at their homes. Smh, can't even feel sorry for these lot.
British Empire on 25 March 1807, King George III signed into law the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. And all for this modern day slavery to resurface. King George X please resurrect and save these poor souls. Laws are scripted on dusted books it seems and never to be implemented.
That’s normal protocol for work visa’s in Australia, put the hard work in, get through it and then you can stay once you’ve given to the system. 60days should be lowered to 30days, get out if you can’t hack it
As my fellow colleagues from south african nursing council had to take English literacy tests an amount of scrunity even coming as senior carers thru home office then aquire England nvq levels. Really they let illiterate ppl with money for COS in🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨let that sink in
As an immigrant i can say this won't stop as long as the easy option is to go abroad for carers, they will work for cheap wages then realise they can't thrive on them a year in , decent wages must be paid
B.s🙆♀️come for me.. Lemme state my late parents came legally 2mum n dad. I only followed when i needed my parents (a nurse) in 2003 on my own work permit 🎉🎉..as so many south african staff nurses came as senior carers..No CARER from abroad was allowed. SO wtf did it ALL change and inexperienced low skilled workers were given entry? No experience no qualifying certificates JUST money🤔tf. And let's not get it twisted it's West African (Nigerian)Zimbabwean and India. WHOLE lock n stock. Back in the days we had to come ALONE. FEND N SAVE TO ADD DEPENDANTS.. What's changed 🤨. So it took 1year to make settled immigrants unemployed and natives so no sympathy here as a settled hardworking immigrant here
Desperation leads to extortion! Do your homework properly don't be in a rush because a friends nice opinion. Big money promises often lead to scam and a heart ache. I rather do a job that satisfies me with peace of mind even if it pays less.
Here in the UK, staff nurses are also registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. The people who're getting exploited are not nurses but support workers who were recruited by their fellow Africans or Asians who're owning care agencies here in the UK. These rogue agencies they bid for the council contracts to look after old people in their own homes. They charged the people they recruited more than R100K & once in the UK they overworked & under pay their employees & when they complain, they threaten them with deportations. Nigerians, Kenyans, Zimbabweans & Indians are the most culprits when it comes to mistreating their own people. They see this loophole as a money making scheme.
The care sector doesnt give a dam for the uk people or the patient, im glad you are making it a race thing, they may look at it.you need to look at the statistics in who owns care homes, soon get your answer..
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At least bums on the street accept their position. These people fancy themselves a caste above, and reality is harsh. You're a wage slave because you put yourself in a vulnerable position. Don’t get exploited.
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