Quote Originally Posted by Nobody's Rep View Post
Well there is in as much as LAs don't have a bottomless pit of money due to years of austerity.

The main push into private care has been in the last decade especially in domiciliary care and this was seen as a way of driving down the cost of the hourly rate of care to help balance the books

The main problem with private provision is that for every £1 they get given they try to spend only a proportion of it and keep some back for profit - that profit has become less and less hence why packages of care are being returned - this and the staffing crisis as people walk away post pandemic

There are really good private providers out there as there are bad voluntary or statutory providers

Its not as simple as one or other but there are over 1000 providers in social care in Wales alone which makes the market place a little bit complex to say the least
The expensive private providers don't tend to be on the local authority approved list , the ones that are cheaper are though .......so the council awards the contracts to those which come in with the lowest bids

And these companies pay very poor wages