Care Worker Recruitment Mandate and Record-Keeping

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

Operative dateApril 9, 2025

CategoryOther, skilled work

Policy toolSponsorship

Affected groupEmployers sponsoring care workers (soc 6135) or senior care workers (soc 6136) with working locations entirely in england

Policy effect

Employers sponsoring Care Workers (SOC 6135) or Senior Care Workers (SOC 6136) with working locations entirely in England must meet specific domestic recruitment and confirmation requirements before hiring new arrivals.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: Employers sponsoring Care Workers (SOC 6135) or Senior Care Workers (SOC 6136) with working locations entirely in England must meet specific domestic recruitment and confirmation requirements before hiring new arrivals.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

The following paragraphs shall take effect on 9 April 2025. In relation to those changes, if an application for entry clearance or permission to stay has been made using a certificate of sponsorship issued by a sponsor to an applicant before 9 April 2025, or if an application which does not require a certificate of sponsorship has been made before 9 April 2025, such applications will be decided in accordance with the Immigration Rules in force on 8 April 2025: INTRO1 APP SW1 to APP SW10 … If the applicant is being sponsored for a job with working locations entirely in England in either of the SOC 2020 occupation codes “6135 Care workers and home carers” or “6136 Senior care workers” … and: (a) is applying for entry clearance; or (b) is applying for permission to stay, and was not last granted permission: (i) as a Skilled Worker, sponsored in either of the SOC 2020 occupation codes in (a), or the SOC 2010 occupation codes “6145 Care workers and home carers” or “6146 Senior care workers”, or (ii) in any other route, and has been legally working for the sponsor in one of these occupation codes for at least the three months ending on the date of application; the requirements in SW 6.1C must be met. … SW 6.1C. Where SW 6.1B applies: (a) the sponsor must have tried to recruit for the job the applicant is being sponsored for, from the pool of Skilled Workers who: (i) are in the UK; (ii) were last sponsored in an occupation code in SW 6.1B; and (iii) are in need of new sponsorship because their sponsor has lost its licence or has not provided sufficient work , or have been identified by the relevant regional or sub-regional partnership (set up for the purpose of delivering activity which prevents and responds to exploitative employment practices with international recruitment of care staff, in the area in which the sponsor is located or recruiting) as a worker requiring assistance in obtaining new sponsorship; and (b) the sponsor must provide confirmation from the regional or sub-regional partnership in (a)(iii) that the requirement in (a) has been met; and (c) the sponsor must confirm that no suitable workers were available from this pool of Skilled Workers.

UK GovernmentOpen official source

Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc-733-12-march-2025/statement-of-changes-to-the-immigration-rules-hc-733-12-march-2025-accessible-version

Review method

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite extraction with independent Gemini 3.8 Flash verification

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Care Worker Recruitment Mandate and Record-Keeping

Policy effect

Conditions and exceptions

Official source excerpt

Review method

Other United Kingdom changes operative in 2025