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18 March 2015updated 08 Sep 2021 7:14am

Four Seasons’ collapse exposes the UK’s broken outsourcing model

By David Rowland

The collapse this week of care home chain Four Seasons shone a spotlight on the risks of placing the health and wellbeing of vulnerable elderly people in the hands of offshore investors.

Care homes are people’s homes. Four Seasons has 322 of them, which together house 16,000 people. A population the size of a small suburb of Manchester are now unsure whether their current homes will disappear.

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