On the topic of the perils of contracting-out another story about the care market. 40 homes of agencies shut down after involvement with CQC this year.
The strange thing about social-care is that for what is the Cinderella end of the welfare state (Most of my fellow social policy students interest being focused on 'sexier' topics like the NHS) it has been at the forefront of contracting-out ever since the NHS and Comm. Care act 1990 instituted the purchaser/ provider split. Helped by comparatively low-barriers to entry compared to other sectors the market in contracting-out has boomed in Social Care along with the associated problems.
A vision of the new kind of welfare state?
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It's vaguely frightening actually..
ReplyDeleteAgreed it is unfortunately a rather dystopian vision.
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