Exclusive: Experts raise alarm over ‘national scandal’ that has hallmarks of trafficking and modern slavery
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British social care agencies have been accused of exploiting foreign workers, leaving migrants living on the breadline as they struggle to pay off debts run up while trying to secure jobs that fail to materialise.
Dozens of people working for 11 different care providers have told the Guardian they paid thousands of pounds to agents to secure jobs working in British care homes or residential care, with most finding limited or no employment when they arrived.
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