Live-in care workers 'have pay docked by agencies to cover accommodation'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The new research - which also involved academics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the charity Focus on Labour Exploitation (Flex) and paid peer researchers with experience working in the sector themselves - will further fuel concerns about exploitation in social care, which is facing a staffing crisis and rising cases of modern slavery.
50% : It also suggests that, like agriculture, health and social care could become a sector licensed by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority - which would require recruitment agencies to register in order to supply workers to the UK, making it easier for employers to identify "fair and safe" recruiters.

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