Help with sponsorship
Recruiting international staff brings real benefits to care providers in adult social care and we've put together some information to help you.
Webinar slides
Suffolk Care Association has produced slides which help providers with sponsorship compliance.
Avoiding licence suspension or revocation
We commissioned the following resources to help you avoid sponsorship licence suspension or revocation.
Home Office approved sponsor self-assessment tool
Our colleagues in Yorkshire and Humber have developed a self-assessment tool for care providers. It helps providers ensure they have everything needed in place to be compliant with their sponsorship licence.
To access the tool, go to the Yorkshire and Humber Regional International Recruitment Hub's section for sponsoring workers.
You'll find a link to the tool under the heading "We work with regional local authority partners to deliver".
Suffolk Care Association guides
Suffolk Care Association has step by step guides about the Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) process for providers. They include:
- Considering sponsorship of overseas workers. This covers overview of process, compliance and costs, plus recruiters.
- Immigration updates. This covers Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) or Defined Certificate of Sponsorship (DCoS) requests, automatic renewals, further information requests, visa application processing and eVisas.
- Compliance Duties and Sponsorship Management System (SMS) Reporting. This covers provider immigration support, sponsorship compliance extensions, salary deductions, HR (including maternity), working time regulations and modern slavery.
