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• The Guardian view on children’s social care: no place for profit | Editorial

  03-07-2022 19:30
  
  Providing homes for young people is not just another public service. Transformative change is neededThe creation of a market in children’s social care was a terrible mistake. Its origins lie in the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering in the 1980s, along with the health service internal market – a model that spread to other sectors. New Labour also failed to draw a necessary line. Amid the general encouragement of outsourcing, despite its drawbacks, successive governments
  
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• Labour’s Wes Streeting launches review to plan for national care service

  03-07-2022 19:13
  
  Exclusive: shadow health secretary says service in England would be brought in over several parliamentsLabour will aim to bring in a national care service in England free at the point of use, just as the 1945 government brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work.In an interview with the Guardian, Wes Streeting said he had asked the Fabian Society to look at how the service would be funded and structured, with a view to bringing it in over th
  
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• Labour to aim to launch national care service inspired by creation of NHS

  03-07-2022 19:13
  
  Exclusive: shadow health secretary says service in England would be brought in over several parliamentsLabour will aim to bring in a national care service in England with just as much ambition as the 1945 government that brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work.In an interview with the Guardian, Wes Streeting said he had asked the Fabian Society to look at how the service would be funded and structured, with a view to bringing it in over t
  
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