{"id":363328,"date":"2026-01-10T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:30:18","slug":"visa-change-could-create-massive-carer-gap-says-gravesend-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363328\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa change could create massive carer gap, says Gravesend firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Changing visa rules for care workers could leave people without care and overwhelm the NHS, a care company boss claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shweta Dowlot Maulayah said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cje72plqk17o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the government&#8217;s proposed immigration reforms<\/a> would leave her company, Maucare Services, in Gravesend, Kent, requiring an extra \u00a315,000 annually per employee to retain staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are going to be losing lots of carers and this is going to create a massive gap,&#8221; she told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it was &#8220;focusing on boosting domestic recruitment and retention&#8221; in the care sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Changing visa rules for care workers could leave people without care and overwhelm the NHS, a care company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-363328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}