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For-profit organisations actually worsen many of the core problems with England’s social care systems. Monkey Business Images/ Shutterstock

July 30, 2026

Why Andy Burnham is right to want for‑profit firms out of social care

Benjamin Goodair, London School of Economics and Political Science

Any reforms which aim to make services work for people, not profits, must change who owns social care services.

Privatisation may not necessarily benefit patients. DC Studio/ Shutterstock

March 4, 2024

Hospital privatisation is linked with worse quality care for patients – new research

Benjamin Goodair, University of Oxford

Our review shows that evidence to support further privatisation of healthcare services is weak.

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June 26, 2023

Two in five children in care are placed outside their local authority – here’s why that’s a problem

Anders Bach-Mortensen, University of Oxford; Benjamin Goodair, University of Oxford, and Jane Barlow, University of Oxford

For-profit care homes are increasingly synonymous with children being placed far from their homes.

Care services should be about providing our most vulnerable citizens with safe homes. MMD Made my dreams | Shutterstock

November 28, 2022

Four in five of the children’s homes in England are run for profit – here’s why that is a problem

Anders Bach-Mortensen, University of Oxford; Benjamin Goodair, University of Oxford, and Jane Barlow, University of Oxford

State-funded schools are not allowed to be operated as profit-making entities. So why are children in care being accommodated by for-profit companies?

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