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Caring about workers’ rights: How a well-designed ‘Fair Work Agency’ could benefit care workers

July 2024

This briefing details risks of exploitation for care workers on the Health and Care Worker Visa (H&CWV) and plots how a well-designed Single Enforcement Body (SEB) could best respond to these risks. UK labour market enforcement has been inefficient and fragmented, this briefing looks at how an effective SEB, in the form of the ‘Fair Work Agency’, could improve UK labour market oversight in order to build resilience against risks of labour exploitation.