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A GERMAN-born Pembrokeshire school support worker has lent her voice to a national campaign to extend the deadline for EU nationals to apply for settled status in the UK. Public services union, Unison Cymru Wales, launched a campaign to encourage the UK government to extend its deadline for applications to the Settled Status scheme last week. Manuela Hughes, who works as a school support worker in Pembrokeshire said that EU nationals employed in Welsh public services had played an essential role during the coronavirus pandemic. "In schools, NHS, the care sector and elsewhere, we have ...

THE government is being urged to extend the deadline for the post-Brexit settled status scheme amid warnings that Covid-19 has prevented key workers in Wales from applying. Public services union Unison Cymru launched a campaign today urging 100,000 of its members to write to their MPs and request the deadline be extended past June 2021.  The union warned that the pandemic has prevented many EU nationals from applying for settled status which allows people to continue living, working and accessing benefits in Britain.  Unison Wales regional manager Bethan Thomas said this is because measur...