Preventing overseas care workers from bringing their families to join them in the UK is a dehumanising move that will “sentence workers to destitution”, according to care workers and support organisations...

For the past eight months, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has been speaking to migrant workers, not-for-profit organisations and employment rights experts to understand the inequalities and exploitation faced by those coming to the UK to work in the care sector. Many of those to whom we spoke planned to bring relatives with them, or had already...

[Work Rights Centre CEO Dora-Olivia Vicol] told TBIJ that the design of the visa, where sponsored workers lose their right to remain in the UK if they quit their jobs or are dismissed, prevents them from escaping exploitative conditions. Many workers are worried that if they blow the whistle on poor treatment, they will be fired and have to leave the country, or risk being deported...

The Home Office confirmed that care workers’ relatives who are already in the UK will be able to stay after the rules are introduced next spring. However, it was unable to confirm what would happen when their visas came up for renewal...

Migrants at Work provides legal support and advocacy to vulnerable workers facing exploitation and labour rights abuses. Its founder, Aké Achi, said: “For the government to ignore dependants of carers is cruel, inhumane and discriminatory.”...