Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
A new report has argued that the quality of adult social care has declined as a result of increased privatisation in the sector.
The Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) has argued that despite 41 per cent of community-based and residential social care having been found by the Care Quality Commission to be inadequate or requiring improvement since 2014, it has no power to intervene to prevent a company from collapsing.
Additionally, the CHPI warned that private social care sector workers are paid ‘considerably’ lower rates than by councils, with a higher turnover of staff.
The report, The failure of privatised adult social care in England: what is to be done?, also calls for new measures to be introduced to bring about a more effective way of regulating the market.
This would include: a transparency test, whereby the contractual arrangements with a private provider should be fully open; an accountability test, whereby the local electorate could demand the ending of a contract with a private provider if there are concerns about performance; a workforce test, whereby the contracts with private providers would have to include requirements guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of the workforce, and collective bargaining rights; and a taxation test, whereby private companies in receipt of public service contracts would be required to demonstrate that they were domiciled in the UK and subject to UK taxation law.
Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
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