questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of private equity investment on the performance of (a) children’s homes and (b) fostering services.
answerText: The Competition and Market Authority study into children’s social care did not find evidence that, on average, private provision was of lower quality than local authority provision. The study did not include a breakdown of private equity-backed investment...
heading: Children: Social Services