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Very excited and grateful to continue our work with the Nuffield Foundation. With an amazing team (Ben Goodair, Ole Helby Petersen, Prof Catherine Needham, Elle Carter), we will spend the next 2.5 years evaluating the impact of outsourcing care provision in England nuffieldfoundation.org/project/evalua…

New paper out today in BMJPublicHealth with Anders Bach-Mortensen and Michelle Degli Esposti: Does market competition ensure the best care homes survive? Sadly not in England's social care, the for-profit sector has taken over. Five key takeaways from our study: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/2/e0…

NEW: The results from Oxford DSPI & @nuffieldfound raise questions about the role of the private for-profit sector in exacerbating England's care sector’s ongoing crisis. More info ⬇️

🚨 Job post 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time postdoc & part-time RA on social care privatisation. On our Nuffield Foundation project at University of Oxford with me and Anders Bach-Mortensen. Please consider applying/sharing 😃 RA: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/11000 Postdoc: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/10999 A thread:

Great The Rest Is Money podcast on the harm of children’s home outsourcing podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… backed by our work👇 🚨For-profit children’s homes perform worse doi.org/10.1016/j.socs… ⚠️Outsourcing leads to more out-of-area placements doi.org/10.1016/j.chia… Robert Peston Steph McGovern

New Nuffield Foundation report: 20 years of data show for-profit providers in adult & children's social care have grown despite underperforming public/third sector. Early analysis suggests this worsens geographical disparity and harms overall care. Link: spi.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/main…

New Nuffield Foundation report out today by Anders Bach-Mortensen, myself and colleagues. What can data tell us about 10 years of social care outsourcing? Link: spi.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/main… A thread:

New #NuffieldFunded report by Anders Bach-Mortensen Oxford DSPI highlights concerns about the quality of adult and children's social care in England run by for-profit companies. Alex Beer manages the grant. Read the report here: ow.ly/HV8A50TBXJO

Care homes run to make a profit are more likely to be shut down for putting vulnerable adults & children at risk. My write up of new research by Anders Bach-Mortensen & Ben Goodair 👇theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

"Academics have created an innovative data resource that is also a counterblast... its conclusions about the rate of failure in for-profit provision are a wake-up call..." The Guardian editorial out today based on our recent Nuffield Foundation project report. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This morning's editorial on social care marketisation failure (see also Tom Wall's story on Ben Goodair & Anders Bach-Mortensen research)

New paper in The BMJ today: We show how public provision of adult social care has nearly ended over the last 20 years. We argue it has done so a) worsening the quality of care b) reducing accessibility of services and c) increasing inequalities. bmj.com/cgi/content/fu…

Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue Ben Goodair and colleagues bmj.com/content/387/bm…

How has outsourcing contributed to the care crisis? Less than 3% of care homes are publicly run. In The BMJ, we argue that the (almost) complete outsourcing of care has worsened quality and accessibility - and will continue to do so without reform. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20…

The increasing outsourcing of social care provision in England has coincided with a social care crisis and worse quality of care. Removing the profit motive would help improve quality and reduce inequities, argue Ben Goodair and colleagues bmj.com/content/387/bm…{SOCIAL_NETWORK