In 2020, after four years of investigation, the Independent Care Review published its final report calling for wide-ranging changes to the way that care is delivered in Scotland.

On the same day, the Scottish Government made “The Promise” – its commitment to implement many of those changes. Some of those commitments, like those that would have been delivered by a National Care Service, have since fallen due to the failure of its bill. But others are still active government policy. A notable one being a commitment – made several times throughout The Promise – to eliminate profit-making from children’s care having determined such care to be an area where profit-making was deemed morally unacceptable.

The Government’s current actual policy response is somewhat weaker, merely attempting to

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