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Is the care system being nudged towards the exit?

2 mins read Social Care
Nudge behavioural economics works by manipulating economic policy to influence behaviours, decisions and opinions.
Jonathan Stanley is manager of the NCERCC. Picture: NCERCC
Jonathan Stanley is principal partner at the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care

It is deeply psychological in the way it creates the structural factors that lead to the shift in opinion.

Examples relevant to residential child care include labels such as "not the right sort of homes to meet needs" and "profiteering".

Whether you view any claim as accurate may depend on your role in providing care for children. 

Beneath the surface is the torpedo of the Care Review, disguised as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and Looked-After Children (distance placement) Bill, going through Parliament largely unchecked and unamended. It intends to use residential child care one third less, and reducing the costs of the care used, then redirecting the money to family-based care.

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