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• The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change | Editorial

  07-10-2024 20:00
  
  The poor record of for-profit care homes must lead to a rethink on how public services are organisedThe government has yet to respond in detail to the latest, shocking findings about the poor performance of for-profit social care providers, and what a report from Oxford University calls the “astounding pace” of children’s home privatisation. But the revelation that almost all the residential care settings forced to close by regulators in the 12 years to 2023 were privately run
  
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• Sammy Morris obituary

  07-10-2024 18:15
  My friend Sammy Morris, who has died aged 77, was a factory worker and later a care assistant. His socialist principles guided him throughout his life, not least in the kind of jobs he took on and in the union activity he undertook at his various workplaces.After being employed in factories supplying the shipyards of the Glasgow area from the age of 15, Sammy became a member of CND, where he found out about the Factory for Peace in Govan, and joined up. A workers’ co-op, it was based on th
  
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