Transparency fears over CMA investigation into children’s social care

8 July 2021 1 min read Joe Lepper Social Care

Campaigners are calling on the UK’s competitions regulator to release its correspondence with public bodies, including the Department for Education, around its investigation into profiteering in the children’s social care sector.

Article 39's Carolyne Willow has launched the complaint. Picture: Article 39

Children’s right’s group Article 39 has submitted a complaint to information regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about the Competiton and Markets Authority (CMA), claiming that the watchdog is refusing to release correspondence it has had with a raft of official public bodies this year during its study.

This includes correspondence with the Children’s Social Care Review Josh MacAlister, who ordered the investigation, the children’s commissioners for Scotland and Wales as well as the DfE.

Its complaint to the ICO says that the CMA “has not considered the high level of public concern about the degree of profit made in children’s social care”.

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