Solace blog

“A lot of the specialist provision for children’s social care is delivered by companies who have equity finance and they’re making super profits out of our children. It’s not right…

When you’re at four o’clock on a Friday afternoon looking for complex care placement and you’ve got a child who’s a ward of court and the judge has told you ‘they have to have this level of care’, you can’t find it anywhere in the country unless you’re prepared to pay. It’s a broken system…

The amount we’re paying for care versus what it is actually costing to provide the care is exponentially different. And that’s frustrating…

Government could, by legislating and changing policy, be reducing the cost burden on local authorities quite significantly…”

Click here to read the full interview of Matt Prosser, Solace president, on the LGC.