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Originally Posted by Cherie

Private care homes are subject to the same inspections and regulations

Nope, they aren't. Sorry I'm not just being contrary there are people dying, being mistreated, assaulted and abused in private facilities up and down the country and the evidence is withheld, whistleblowers are gagged or sacked.

A market in social care was introduced, in part, as a way of keeping the costs of
state-funded social care under control. By restricting the funding available to
local authorities to provide care services at a time of increased need, successive
governments have forced local authorities to generate ‘efficiencies’ through
contracting with the lowest-cost operators in the independent sector.
This competition between providers to win contracts from local authorities on
a lowest-cost basis has driven down the quality of care in many instances to
the ‘minimum quality level allowed’. Indeed the current Care Minister, Norman
Lamb, has acknowledged that the current system ‘incentivises poor care, low
wages and neglect, often acting with little regard for the people it is supposed
to be looking after’

https://chpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploa...tober-2013.pdf