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Sixfold rise in foreign care workers in UK complaining of exploitation

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Royal College of Nursing was contacted 134 times in 2023-24 by care workers.

This figure was up from 22 such complaints just three years ago .

RCN says employers are forcing migrants to pay thousands of pounds just to leave jobs.

In one case, workers were told they would have to pay 10,000 to cover hiring costs’.

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