Care companies are insisting on unnecessary and expensive support packages for vulnerable children to boost their profits, a council leader has claimed.
Barry Lewis, the Tory leader of Derbyshire county council, said that former family-run businesses acquired by private equity groups were trying to get “as much cash as possible” out of local authorities.
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