Rejected petition Stop Care Homes charging privately funded more for care than publicly funded

The BBC Panorama programme 'Crisis in care part 2 Who Pays' recently highlighted the scandal of privately funded care home patients being charged significantly more for the same care as publicly funded patients. This amounts to systemic financial abuse of vulnerable people and must be stopped

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Date submitted 10 June 2019
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