Children’s social care reforms to include rules to stop profiteering

Children’s social care is to undergo a major reform, the Labour Government said (Alamy/PA) -

New rules are being announced to stop profiteering in children’s social care as part of reforms aimed at ending years of what the Government described as neglect of the system.

The watchdog Ofsted is to be empowered to crack down on exploitative providers, while companies will be made to set out their finances in a bid to increase transparency across the sector in England.