Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do is join the market in what may now be England’s most lucrative commodity. A commodity with arms and legs, hearts and brains, thoughts and feelings. Children. Two years ago I stumbled into this issue after discovering that children in care who were being help...

By George Monbiot