Member

I turn finally to Amendment 174 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, which seeks to ban profit-making provision in children’s social care. We all agree that profiteering from providing children’s social care is unacceptable. The failure of the market through the unacceptable levels of profit that have emerged is good neither for our local authorities nor for the nature of the market and those who genuinely want to provide high-quality provision—nor, most importantly, for the children who need that provision.