Pilot scheme for foreign home carers planned for second half of next year
The Policy Address proposed a pilot scheme to import foreign home carers with higher elderly-care skills. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said the first batch was expected to be piloted only in the second half of next year, with a minimum of 150 hours of training. Domestic helpers will not be accepted for local job transfers, and must return to their place of origin at their own expense to receive training and pass a regulated assessment, while the first batch will have only several hundred places.
Chris Sun sets out the assessment thresholds and quota scale for the import scheme, with the 150-hour training and an initial batch of several hundred places giving readers a sense of how quickly it will actually advance.
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