#carehomes — Public Fediverse posts

Preparing Croydon for future care needs with new care home contract

Croydon Council has entered a new contract with care provider, Eleanor Healthcare Group, who will run three of…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Croydon #carehomes #EleanorHealthcareGroup #TheAdultSocialCareandHealthStrategy
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/20295/

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

Private firms ran almost all #CareHomes forced to shut for breaches in #England

Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were #RunForProfit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/06/private-firms-ran-almost-all-care-homes-forced-to-shut-for-breaches-in-england
#ToryLegacy

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=nqnWSotYUus

For fuck's sake! Physical abuse! What the fuck's wrong with people!? WARNING: This is hard to hear

#LGBTQIAplus :newpride: #ElderAbuse

#Whistlebowers expose #queerphobia in #carehomes

#Channel4News

#CompassionInCare