Why Andy Burnham is right to want for-profit firms out of social care

For-profit organisations actually worsen many of the core problems with England’s social care systems. Monkey Business Images/ Shutterstock Prime minister Andy Burnham announced on Wednesday his commitment to improving England’s social care system. If the new prime minister has his way, England will legislate a new national care service within the next two years. Burnham will also seek to make social care more person-centred, ensure it’s better aligned with the NHS and remove firms who are…