Wednesday 29th July 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Morning !

Interesting first article at the Times , public opinion well behind this --

Andy Burnham to lock out private firms from social care revolution
The prime minister wants to stop taxpayers subsidising private equity profits as he seeks to set up an NHS-style service

Privately run nursing home chains face being cut out of a radical shake-up of social care in England to prevent taxpayers’ money being used to subsidise the profits of private equity.

On Wednesday Andy Burnham will pledge to put “everything he’s got” behind reforming social care and create a new national care service modelled on the NHS.

He has invited Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, and Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats leader, to a meeting on Wednesday morning on creating a new funding model that would provide elderly people with free nursing care at the point of need, rather than leaving them to face ruinous bills that average about £80,000 a year. Nigel Farage of Reform UK was not invited to the meeting.

The Times understands that the prime minister is reluctant to allow the new service to be operated by large private sector providers for profit and wants to base the model around community-led services run by charities, local authorities and not-for-profit companies.

“He is coming at this from the principle that he does not want to see private sector firms making large profits over the provision of a vital public service,” a senior government source said. “The model is going to be more like the NHS or the Live Well scheme he pioneered in Manchester rather than the system we have at the moment.”

English child social care is another rich target for the Vultures --

Last year Wales passed a law to ban private profit from children’s social care, meaning that from 2030 councils will not be able to put children in placements run by operators set up to make a profit.

[gilsey]

free nursing care at the point of need

Nursing care is already paid for by the NHS, at least partly, the Times doesn't know what it's talking about*. Age UK:

If you don't meet the criteria for NHS continuing healthcare, but need nursing care, the NHS pays a contribution towards the cost of the nursing care directly to the nursing home.

It's the 'social care' and 'hotel' costs that are the problem. I'll be very surprised if AB's planning for taxpayers to contribute to the 'hotel' costs, you need a roof over your head and food etc anyway so I fear the middle classes inheritances are still going to be eaten away if they're unlucky.


* not for the first time

[gilsey]

Obviously private sector profiteering is bad, but when I was young Council-run care homes were still common and in terms of the state of the buildings etc they were pretty run down, private care homes were much smarter. I don't know how you avoid penny-pinching on capital expenditure in the context of a LA service.

[gilsey]

Thanks for the film review sky.

[Frog222]

It was up to 32 while I was having a long siesta, and then another after I'd checked the thermometer !

First lol after ckecking Bluesky --

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

https://bsky.app/profile/marcusjdl.bsky ... rsfnh3n22r

"" Nigel Farage embracing a woman who advocated burning people of colour alive in the homes they’re forced to live in. They indeed set fire to such a hotel in Rotherham after her tweet. bsky.app/profile/refo... ""