New measures to change the length of time people arriving in the country have to wait before they can apply for settled status have been welcomed by the care industry. Those who stay working in the sector will be able to get leave to remain after five years unlike people in other jobs who now face a longer wait of 10 years at least. The changes have been called a ‘U turn’ by the Conservatives who say they’ll end up costing the taxpayer ten billion pounds.
Left out here: Leaves out what changes the picture
The article never says that the original plans would have given foreign care workers a 15-year wait for settlement. The five-year route for care workers is a retreat from that plan. Without this, the only sign that anything was reversed is the Conservatives' 'U turn' label.
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Channel 4 News gives a short, mostly attributed account of the home secretary's settlement rule changes for care workers. It ends on a Conservative claim that the changes will cost ten billion pounds, with no period, base or source. Other coverage shows that figure was the home secretary's own lifetime cost estimate from the Migration Advisory Committee. The article also never tells the reader that the change softens a 15-year wait for care workers in the original plans.
Uses figures that mislead
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“they’ll end up costing the taxpayer ten billion pounds”
Why this matters
The article closes on the Conservatives' figure of "ten billion pounds". It gives no period, no base and no source for it.
The impression it gives
A reader takes away that this specific change carries a ten billion pound bill, and has nothing to weigh the figure against.
The context
Same-day coverage reports £10 billion as a lifetime cost estimate that the home secretary herself cited from the Migration Advisory Committee. She cited it for the wave of arrivals approaching settlement, not as a costing of the care worker exemption. The article gives neither the lifetime basis nor the source.
The article never says that the original plans would have given foreign care workers a 15-year wait for settlement. The five-year route for care workers is a retreat from that plan. Without this, the only sign that anything was reversed is the Conservatives' 'U turn' label.
“have been called a ‘U turn’ by the Conservatives”
The article attributes the 'U turn' label to the Conservatives rather than adopting it in its own voice.
“Those who stay working in the sector will be able to get leave to remain after five years unlike people in other jobs who now face a longer wait of 10 years at least”
The article states the change plainly, with the actual waiting periods for each group.