Ofsted warnt vor Profitgier, da die Zahl der Kinderheime in einem Jahr um 15 % steigt
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news/ofsted-warns-of-profiteering-as-number-of-children-s-homes-surge-15-in-a-year
Von Only-Emu-9531
Ofsted warnt vor Profitgier, da die Zahl der Kinderheime in einem Jahr um 15 % steigt
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news/ofsted-warns-of-profiteering-as-number-of-children-s-homes-surge-15-in-a-year
Von Only-Emu-9531
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I don’t understand why they’re willing to pay these rates to care homes, but won’t pay foster carers properly – it’s less than minimum wage when you add it up, and they have to fund an extra bedroom out of that (bigger mortgage….)
My local council is advertising for supported lodgings carers for 16-21 year old care leavers.
£1020 a month. The reality is that I let my spare room out to a lodger for £650 a month – I could get more.
That leaves £370 a month to feed them two meals a day (that’s £200 just on ingredients) and a lot of labour in terms of teaching them independent living skills, dealing with SS, paperwork and so on.
Why would I work every day of the month without a day off for what is – once everything else is factored in – £170 a month? It’s equivalent to about 14 hours a month at minimum wage – and I can guarantee they need more than half an hour a day in support.
Meanwhile, they’re willing to pay thousands every week for kids to go into care homes. Make it make sense.
Yeah this has been a long-term issue that no one has really addressed. My friend was raised in the foster system and was abused pretty badly. They’d take all the support money, not clothe him so he’d be using 6 year old small clothes that barely fit, and would then ignore him when not shouting at him. They’d limit internet access so he couldn’t tell anyone.
Social workers were alerted numerous times over the years and chose to do nothing. One even told him children shouldn’t talk about things they dont understand. It was a group home with all children reporting the abuse as well. My mother ended up feeding and clothing him most of the time and had to have regular screaming matches with the foster mum when she’d come up to our house looking for him.
I worked in social care for a while as a young adult and unfortunately saw this pattern repeated nationally. Very little oversight, social workers refusing to acknowledge abuse, and no government intervention. A lot of the time social workers were actually abusive to others or their own kids and it’s the reason I left the profession, I couldn’t ethically manage dealing with it.
Privatisation of essential services has been the death of this country. Children’s homes should not be making a profit.
I’m a broken record on this, but I am strongly of the view that children’s homes should not be for profit, and it beggars belief that anyone thinks it works. When working with some of the most vulnerable in society, dealing with usually a complex cocktail of need, your motive cannot be profit. I just cannot get my head around the fact there are people out there who even have the idea that they can make big money out of such horrible circumstances. I am deeply suspect of anyone who founds such a business.
This article comes not long after we had the report by the BBC into the number of failed adoptions. We also have a SEND, and child and adolescent mental health crisis in education. These are all interconnected problems, along with dozens more, where children are being persistently failed by decisions that place money and misplaced ideals before welfare.
Rest is money podcast did a brilliant episode on it. It should be a huge scandal, but like anything in this country we can’t question spend on the vulnerable when clearly PEs are making billions of profits