Ofsted mette in guardia dal profitto poiché il numero di orfanotrofi aumenta del 15% in un anno
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news/ofsted-warns-of-profiteering-as-number-of-children-s-homes-surge-15-in-a-year
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Ofsted mette in guardia dal profitto poiché il numero di orfanotrofi aumenta del 15% in un anno
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news/ofsted-warns-of-profiteering-as-number-of-children-s-homes-surge-15-in-a-year
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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 was in Foster care as a child. I distinctly remember both carers banging on about how much money they could get for taking on a disabled kid. Pretty sure they money they were given to supply me with necessities was being spent on trips to the bingo.
Don’t get me wrong in many ways they were great, but like with a lot of helping professions, it does attract those with more unsavoury tendencies or dispositions.