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Let us look at what the profit motive does. We talked earlier about regional care co-operatives, and their predecessors are the regional and subregional commissioning frameworks. A 2022 study on what works for children found that the key reason they were not working was a lack of provider sign-up. Providers thought they could make more money from the spot market, so they did not want to sign up to standard contracts. That is a real threat to the regional care co-operative model, one that will always remain while you have for-profit companies.