Matthew Kilburn
Freelance writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Joined
September 2023
This is completely mad. Care visits to my mother have been enhanced by the arrival of several people on care worker visas filling posts which couldn't be filled locally. They have helped keep the service going. I don't know where their local replacements will come from.
BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?
