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• The Guardian view on outsourced children's homes: the wrong model | Editorial

  04-06-2023 19:30
  
  New research shows that for-profit businesses make worse carers. It’s time to admit that privatisation failedThe privatisation of children’s residential care in England over the past decade has resulted in worse outcomes. This has long been suspected by critics of the current system, which is dominated by providers either partly or wholly owned by private equity investors. Researchers at Oxford University have now supplied proof. The study found that 17,000 out-of-area placements, wh
  
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• Too few people in power really care about those with disabilities | Letter

  04-06-2023 17:36
  
  Academics and an expert adviser point to the case of Sally Lewis, whose death in a care home in 2017 prompted a depressingly familiar ‘scandal-review-inquest-lessons learned’ responseFrances Ryan suggests that disabled people in Britain are viewed more as a burden than human (A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again, 30 May).Some days it feels as if “burden” is not a strong enough word to describe things. On 30 May, a cor
  
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