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Croydon Council to make care services private company
Published: 2010-07-14 09:30:50
Croydon Council is creating a private company to run its adult social care and housing services.
(Sourced from Croydon Guardian.)
There are plans to form a local authority trading company (LATC) allowing the council to sell the services to other authorities.
The company will include the council’s award winning dementia care service, which has been highlighted as a shining example of good practice by the Department of Health.
Croydon North MP Malcolm Wicks said: “This is going to make the Thatcher period look like a golden age.
"The idea of privatising adult social care scares the life out of me, in terms of vulnerability and the crucial needs of those people. This has to be a public service with proper scrutiny from the council."
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