Outsourcing public services involves syphoning off of funds to pay investors; the (supposed) calculation is that payments are dwarfed by the efficiencies introduced by the private sector.
This relies on the assumptions the public sector is 'inefficient' & investors only are paid when outsourcing is a success. Sadly neither is true, and so children's social services have become a way of bolstering private equity's returns *not* improving the lot of children!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/03/private-equity-england-childrens-care-providers-profit
