Just last week the government announced that only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services as part of efforts to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children.
But details of the proposed changes laid down in parliament reveal that profit-making companies will not be prevented from “setting up a separate non-profit making subsidiary to enable them to undertake such functions”.
Helga Pile, national officer for social care at Unison, said: "The government claims to have listened to concerns from charities, organisations and professionals over their reckless plans to turn child protection into a profit-making venture.
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