Petition Nationalise Social care in the UK

It has been widely reported that several privatised care homes have pulled out of public sector contracts as "We didn't think we could do it for the money - it was as simple as that." and it "doesn't leave a great deal" (of profit). For too long people have paid thousands for substandard care.

More details

For years now social care across the UK has been dogged by increasing pressure, allegations of abuse and poor staff turnover and training along with trying to increase profits margins for shareholders from the public's expense. Its time to nationalise social care

//www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39321579

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/social-policy/departments/social-policy-social-work/news-and-events/2017/01/time-to-nationalise-social-care.aspx

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

8 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 8 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.