Further along the coast, more people were reportedly seen arriving on Hastings beach after being picked up by the RNLI +18 Further along the coast, more people were reportedly seen arriving on Hastings beach after being picked up by the RNLI Yesterday's 1,000 arrivals mean the figure for this year is almost 24,000 – close to three times as many as in 2020 +18 Yesterday's 1,000 arrivals mean the figure for this year is almost 24,000 – close to three times as many as in 2020 +18 Despite visibility dropping in the morning and weather deteriorating at sea, around 40 people were seen disembarking from the Dover lifeboat shortly before 8am RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Migrant crossings reach 22,000: At least 100 crossed the... Dozens of migrants have already frozen to death on Belarus... Are subs on the menu? Kamala Harris continues her charm... SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Despite visibility dropping in the morning and weather deteriorating at sea, around 40 people were seen disembarking from the Dover lifeboat shortly before 8am. Thirty more were brought into harbour around 9.30am on board Border Force cutter Hunter. Around 490 brought in on Wednesday were had to sleep on the floor at the Tug Haven reception due to pressure on Border Force. A source said: 'The conditions are vile, we can't even get the cleaners in because there are so many migrants arriving. 'They're not covered by the risk assessments. There are only two toilets and we can't get them cleaned. Border Force is suffering yet again from the historical inadequate funding.' Yesterday, two boats were seen arriving before 5am while RNLI's Dungeness lifeboat The Morrell brought around 50 migrants into Dover Marina before dawn. It returned with 30 more at 8.30am. The RNLI dispatched lifeboats from Ramsgate, Dover, Dungeness, all in Kent, and Hastings, East Sussex. Around 50 migrants disembarked from one lifeboat on the beach at Hastings at 12.30pm. Among those seen clambering up the shingle were young girls wearing thick winter coats wrapped in foil blankets. One group of migrants was prevented from landing by rescue services after drifting dangerously close to the MoD firing range at Lydd, Kent. Thirty more were brought into the harbour around 9.30am on board Border Force cutter Hunter +18 Thirty more were brought into the harbour around 9.30am on board Border Force cutter Hunter Around 490 brought in on Wednesday were had to sleep on the floor at the Tug Haven reception due to pressure on Border Force (pictured yesterday) +18 Around 490 brought in on Wednesday were had to sleep on the floor at the Tug Haven reception due to pressure on Border Force (pictured yesterday) Among those seen clambering up the shingle were young girls wearing thick winter coats wrapped in foil blankets +18 Among those seen clambering up the shingle were young girls wearing thick winter coats wrapped in foil blankets Meanwhile there are mounting fears that the three migrants trying to make it across the Channel on kayaks this morning are dead. A spokesman for the French Prefecture Maritime said: 'We were also informed in the early morning that two kayaks had been found adrift, off Calais, by the national gendarmerie. 'Two shipwrecked were recovered by the boat Eulimène of the national gendarmerie and deposited in Calais. Unfortunately the castaways indicated that three people were missing. 'Despite the resources deployed, the three people could not be found and the search was suspended at the end of the day.' It comes after 853 migrants sailed from Europe in 25 boats on Wednesday last week on what was the record daily figure. It led government sources to accuse the French of 'lamentable inaction'. The numbers have seen tensions rise between London and Paris as it was revealed fewer than half of the migrants have been stopped by French authorities. Dan O'Mahoney, the UK's Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, warned: 'Migrants making these dangerous crossings are putting their lives at risk. 'It is vital we do everything we can to prevent them and break the business model of the criminal gangs exploiting people.' The UK has started paying £54million in smaller chunks to France to help fund them holding back the migrants. The monthly total for November so far has passed 3,500, compared with 757 over the same period last year. Border Force chiefs had been planning for just 2,000 crossings over the whole of the month. Mr Macron's government promised to stop migrants leaving French beaches through increased patrols in return for £54 million from the UK. Priti Patel approved the first instalment of the sum last week following assurances from her opposite number, Mr Darmanin, that 100 per cent of the boats would be intercepted if the UK pays the full amount. A Home Office spokesman said yesterday: 'The number of illegal migrants we have seen departing from France today is unacceptable. 'The British public have had enough of seeing people die in the Channel while ruthless criminal gangs profit from their misery and our New Plan for Immigration will fix the broken system which encourages migrants to make this lethal journey.' A Border Force officer secures a boat in Dover which was used by people thought to be migrants following a small boat incident in the Channel +18 A Border Force officer secures a boat in Dover which was used by people thought to be migrants following a small boat incident in the Channel A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel, as small boat incidents in the Channel continue into the evening +18 A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel, as small boat incidents in the Channel continue into the evening Border Force vessel Seeker leaves the Port of Dover in Kent, as small boat incidents in the Channel +18 Border Force vessel Seeker leaves the Port of Dover in Kent, as small boat incidents in the Channel
Britain's jobs market is experiencing record numbers of vacancies with nearly 2.7million now being advertised, research found today amid rising demand for driving instructors, prison officers and forklift truck drivers.
Around 221,000 new job adverts were posted in the first week of November which was the fourth highest weekly figure since the start of last year, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).
The body said the biggest rises in ads were for driving instructors, prison officers and forklift truck drivers, compared with falls for construction sector roles such as painters and decorators, roofers and bricklayers.
That brought the total number of active job postings to 2.68million, which was another new record high. The REC added that the increase in job ads shows no signs of slowing down in the build-up to Christmas.
Industry experts said huge numbers of people are now moving jobs because they had waited earlier this year amid uncertainty caused by the pandemic, while others in their late 50s or 60s were deciding now is the time to retire.
The biggest weekly rises in ads were for driving instructors (up 32 per cent), prison officers (up 13 per cent) and forklift truck drivers (up 9.1 per cent) - when the week of November 1 to 7 was compared to October 25 to 31.
The REC, which is based in London, also reported a notable fall in ads for construction sector roles such as painters and decorators (down 17.8 per cent), roofers (down 13.4 per cent) and bricklayers (down 11.3 per cent).
A decline was also reported in ads for carpenters (down 9.1 per cent). However there was weekly growth in ads for secondary school teachers (up 9.1 per cent), care workers (up 7.1 per cent) and goods packers (up 6.8 per cent).
It also found that UK's top hiring hotspot last week was Telford and Wrekin (up 19.4 per cent) followed by South Teesside (up 13.9 per cent). Three of the bottom ten local areas for growth in job ads were in eastern England.
These were Breckland and South Norfolk (down 3.6 per cent), North and West Norfolk (down 2.4 per cent), and Bedford (2.2 per cent) - while Swindon, Liverpool and Cornwall and the Scilly Isles saw notable rises in ads.
There were mixed fortunes in Greater London, where ad numbers as a whole were relatively unchanged. While a number of areas were in the top ten hiring hotspots, including Harrow and Hillingdon (up 10 per cent) and Bexley and Greenwich (up 9.8 per cent), others such as Barnet (down 7.9 per cent) found themselves in the bottom ten.
221,000 new job adverts were posted in the first week of November - the fourth highest weekly figure since the start of 2020
| County/unitary authority | Unique active job postings, 1-7 November | Change in active job postings, 25-31 October to 1-7 November |
|---|---|---|
| Telford and Wrekin | 7,742 | 19.40% |
| South Teesside | 6,271 | 13.90% |
| Swindon | 11,945 | 10.50% |
| Liverpool | 21,768 | 10.40% |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 15,672 | 10.40% |
| Harrow and Hillingdon | 17,354 | 10.00% |
| Bexley and Greenwich | 9,006 | 9.80% |
| Brent | 8,095 | 9.50% |
| North Yorkshire CC | 21,100 | 9.20% |
| Enfield | 8,988 | 9.00% |
| County/unitary authority | Unique active job postings, 1-7 November | Change in active job postings, 25-31 October to 1-7 November |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford | 6,557 | -2.20% |
| Croydon | 10,042 | -2.30% |
| North/West Norfolk | 4,389 | -2.40% |
| Antrim and Newtownabbey | 4,950 | -2.50% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 883 | -2.50% |
| West Sussex (North East) | 21,672 | -2.60% |
| Breckland and South Norfolk | 5,725 | -3.60% |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | 8,168 | -5.90% |
| Barnet | 9,475 | -7.90% |
| Shetland Islands | 1,169 | -10.00% |
REC chef executive Neil Carberry told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'We're seeing really significant delays to getting jobs filled at the moment, just because of the tightness of the labour market.
'Most of our members - at the REC, we represent the recruiment industry - are saying it's taking at least a month longer to fill vacancies at the moment than normal.
| Occupation | Unique active job postings, 1-7 November | Change in active job postings, 25-31 October to 1-7 November |
|---|---|---|
| Fitness instructors | 5,459 | 7.70% |
| Care workers and home carers | 78,740 | 7.10% |
| Large goods vehicle drivers | 8,394 | 5.50% |
| Primary and nursery education teaching professionals | 44,639 | 4.70% |
| Nurses | 121,815 | 3.90% |
| Chartered and certified accountants | 6,180 | 3.20% |
| Bar staff | 9,354 | 3.20% |
| Chefs | 53,425 | 3.10% |
| Programmers and software development professionals | 102,661 | 3.00% |
| Waiters and waitresses | 5,984 | 2.70% |
| Sales and retail assistants | 52,838 | 0.00% |
| Hairdressers and barbers | 1,223 | -0.20% |
| Mechanical engineers | 930 | -1.50% |
| Marketing associate professionals | 38,184 | -2.10% |
| Metal working production and maintenance fitters | 29,465 | -4.10% |
| Cleaners and domestics | 38,271 | -4.40% |
| Carpenters and joiners | 7,743 | -9.10% |
'And with 221,000 new vacancies coming onto the market last week, there's clearly strong demand. But also that high number, 2.7million vacancies still live, that's probably because some of those vacancies are taking longer to fill.'
He was asked whether one reason for the shortages of labour getting worse in some areas were because people were being lured into some jobs such as lorry drivers which were offering better pay.
And Mr Carberry said: 'What tends to happen over time is that particularly shortages of people are attracted towards those sectors. One of the areas where we're seeing a big upturn in vacancies at the moment is care homes.
'That's because the demand for care is rising but that's also because workers in care maybe have been temped into other sectors as they've opened as well.'
On hospitality, he added: 'We've seen a big bounce back in hospitality over the course of this year and of course this is key hiring season traditionally in the hospitality sector, very busy in November and December.
'The area that's maybe a bit slower at the moment is construction and we think that's about some of the supply chain challenges construction has had on materials, just slowing down what's happening on sites.'
Mr Carberry said the REC measures salary changes by asking recruiters about the starting rates for permanent jobs and the rates for temporary jobs that they're placing at the moment.
He added that in October there was the widest spread and fastest rise in rates of pay that the REC has seen since its survey started back in 1997.
Mr Carberry continued: 'While salaries for starting new jobs are rising everywhere, anecdotally we're hearing that they are rising much more in key shortage sectors – areas like driving, but also IT is a big area of pay inflation, and maybe rising a bit less in some other areas.
'One of the big questions for early next year is how much of that is trying to attract new people from the labour market, versus the kind of pay rises that companies might choose to put through for their own staff.
'That doesn't seem to have risen quite as much yet, and of course with inflation being as high as it is, there's likely to be some pressure about that in early 2022.'
He also commented on discussion about the trend of the 'Great Resignation', where people are quitting their jobs for varying reasons, and this has been suggested as one of the factors behind the increase in job ads.
Mr Carberry said: 'It certainly is the case that earlier in the year recruiters were reporting that people weren't quite ready to move jobs because of the uncertainty still being around.
'Now they are - I don't think it's about people walking out on employers who they are dissatisfied with, it's just that nobody moved jobs for about a year, and we're getting all that activity all at once as people try to move their career on, get that pay rise that they want. Moving is also a way to increase pay.
'The other big trend that we're seeing is maybe people deciding in later career that now is the time to step away and retire.
| Occupation | Unique active job postings, 1-7 November | Change in active job postings, 25-31 October to 1-7 November |
|---|---|---|
| Driving instructors | 823 | 32.30% |
| Prison service officers (below principal officer) | 539 | 13.00% |
| Forklift truck drivers | 2,956 | 9.10% |
| Secondary education teaching professionals | 11,903 | 9.10% |
| Fitness instructors | 5,459 | 7.70% |
| Care workers and home carers | 78,740 | 7.10% |
| Bank and post office clerks | 577 | 7.10% |
| Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers | 4,197 | 6.80% |
| Beauticians and related occupations | 2,282 | 6.00% |
| Veterinarians | 10,902 | 6.00% |
| Occupation | Unique active job postings, 1-7 November | Change in active job postings, 25-31 October to 1-7 November |
|---|---|---|
| Construction and building trades n.e.c. | 3,218 | -7.60% |
| Assemblers (electrical and electronic products) | 629 | -7.90% |
| Sales administrators | 13,019 | -8.00% |
| Carpenters and joiners | 7,743 | -9.10% |
| Construction operatives n.e.c. | 11,587 | -9.20% |
| Bricklayers and masons | 1,677 | -11.30% |
| Plasterers | 878 | -11.30% |
| Human resources administrative occupations | 19,605 | -11.40% |
| Roofers, roof tilers and slaters | 1,450 | -13.40% |
| Painters and decorators | 3,657 | -17.80% |
This REC graph shows how job vacancies have varied by area. The UK's top hiring hotspot last week was Telford and Wrekin'So we're seeing quite a few people in their late 50s and 60s say now's the time to do something different. And that generational change is quite a big theme in what we're seeing from employers at the moment.'
It comes as tens of thousands of care home staff who have not had both Covid-19 vaccine doses are now unable to legally work in care homes after the Government's mandatory jab policy kicked in yesterday. Staff working in registered care homes in England must have had both jabs to continue in their role, unless medically exempt.
NHS England figures show that more than 56,000 current staff in care homes for younger and older residents had not been recorded as having received both doses as of November 7 - four days before the deadline. Several thousands of these are understood to have self-certified as medically exempt or to have applied for formal proof.
Health officials expect the number of double vaccinated staff to have risen in the three days between Sunday and Thursday. It is unclear how many staff have already quit due to the requirement.
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