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

New report says policy changes are needed to protect hidden workforce' from exploitation

Live-in care workers recruited from overseas to care for disabled and elderly people in Britain are being exploited by unscrupulous" agencies who dock their pay to cover accommodation costs", according to new research.

The workers, who live with clients to provide round-the-clock care, in some cases had their pay reduced by hundreds of pounds a month despite being paid only the minimum wage to begin with.