Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser

Brian Bell says ministers have let social care become reliant on low-paid and vulnerable foreign workers

Ministers have allowed England's creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government's migration adviser has warned.

In a strongly worded intervention, Prof Brian Bell, who has just been reappointed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, as chair of the migration advisory committee (MAC), called the government's tacit acceptance of exploitation in the sector appalling".