Social care in the United Kingdom
Social workers are employed to make decisions about the help people need if the government is paying. The people who are paid to actually do this work may be called care workers. They are mostly women and the pay is low. People often leave for better paid work in retail.  According to Skills for Care there were 165,000 unfilled jobs in England in 2021/22 - 52% more than the year before. There are about 988,000 paid care workers in the United Kingdom.  Many of these workers are immigrants. 58,000 came to the UK in the year to March 2023 — mostly from India and Nigeria. The trade union Unison reported in 2023 that many pay a lot of money to people in their home countries who find them work.  They are then  vulnerable to exploitation and cannot complain.