Didn’t know for profit children’s homes were a thing. Why is that legal? Despicable profiteering from children in this way.
Surprising no one.
Who knew that accountants chasing margins on already tight budgets would end in poor service delivery.
There’s a distinct difference in quality between private care homes and local authority/charity run care homes.
The average privately run care home, at least in my experience, is a god damn awful environment for children to grow up in.
-Invariably, it will be a residential house that has been split up into as many bedrooms as is physically possible, much like a HMO. One room will be dedicated as a staff office. There often isn’t any form of living room or communal space, and when there is, it’s an uncomfortable sofa and a TV that’s from the 80’s.
-The staff are paid minimum wage and work long hours. They have 0 interest in looking after the kids and raising them well, and instead are just after the easiest possible shift they can get.
-The home will take in whatever kids they get offered, regardless of their individual needs. This typically leads to a house full of kids that are involved in criminality, have been victims of serious abuse, or have complex mental health needs. None of these kids will receive any support to work through their issues and try to tackle them, because the staff member is too busy sleeping in the staff office.
-There is 0 consistency in the life of these kids. Because they’re In a crappy home with no real supervision, they will often smash the place up. They’ll go missing on a daily basis. They’ll get in trouble with other residents. And then they get moved to a new home. Some of these kids will move on a near monthly basis, and it just makes the problems worse.
Ultimately, the for-profit childrens home industry exists solely for that purpose, to make money. It doesn’t exist to help raise young people. It doesn’t exist to support their development. It exists to house as many children as possible, in the absolute bare minimum of lawful conditions, whilst maximizing profit for whoever is at the top. It’s an absolutely disgusting industry that fails the youth of this nation, and serves only to enrich a handful of individuals at the cost of the next generation.
Anecdotally this is in line with what I experience. Care homes trying to ring every penny out of the most vulnerable people, provide absolutely woeful care by people with little training on minimum wage, then call the police repeatedly over minor issues that one would expect of people with such challenging issues, knowing that if they do it enough, they have a good case for bouncing the person onto an alternate care setting whilst keeping the significant amount of money they received from the local authority for housing them. They simply aren’t worth the profit/output ratio.
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Why does this remind me of Oliver Twist?
Didn’t know for profit children’s homes were a thing. Why is that legal? Despicable profiteering from children in this way.
Surprising no one.
Who knew that accountants chasing margins on already tight budgets would end in poor service delivery.
There’s a distinct difference in quality between private care homes and local authority/charity run care homes.
The average privately run care home, at least in my experience, is a god damn awful environment for children to grow up in.
-Invariably, it will be a residential house that has been split up into as many bedrooms as is physically possible, much like a HMO. One room will be dedicated as a staff office. There often isn’t any form of living room or communal space, and when there is, it’s an uncomfortable sofa and a TV that’s from the 80’s.
-The staff are paid minimum wage and work long hours. They have 0 interest in looking after the kids and raising them well, and instead are just after the easiest possible shift they can get.
-The home will take in whatever kids they get offered, regardless of their individual needs. This typically leads to a house full of kids that are involved in criminality, have been victims of serious abuse, or have complex mental health needs. None of these kids will receive any support to work through their issues and try to tackle them, because the staff member is too busy sleeping in the staff office.
-There is 0 consistency in the life of these kids. Because they’re In a crappy home with no real supervision, they will often smash the place up. They’ll go missing on a daily basis. They’ll get in trouble with other residents. And then they get moved to a new home. Some of these kids will move on a near monthly basis, and it just makes the problems worse.
Ultimately, the for-profit childrens home industry exists solely for that purpose, to make money. It doesn’t exist to help raise young people. It doesn’t exist to support their development. It exists to house as many children as possible, in the absolute bare minimum of lawful conditions, whilst maximizing profit for whoever is at the top. It’s an absolutely disgusting industry that fails the youth of this nation, and serves only to enrich a handful of individuals at the cost of the next generation.
Anecdotally this is in line with what I experience. Care homes trying to ring every penny out of the most vulnerable people, provide absolutely woeful care by people with little training on minimum wage, then call the police repeatedly over minor issues that one would expect of people with such challenging issues, knowing that if they do it enough, they have a good case for bouncing the person onto an alternate care setting whilst keeping the significant amount of money they received from the local authority for housing them. They simply aren’t worth the profit/output ratio.