Paul Marinko 11 March 2026

Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care

Casey urged to consider potential of LATCos for social care image
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Baroness Louise Casey has been urged to look at local authority trading companies (LATCo) providing an ‘antidote' to billions of pounds being drained from social care.

Rhian Stone, chief executive of Bolton Cares, Bolton MBC's LATCo, told The MJ's inaugural LATCo conference in Birmingham last week: ‘The problem is the dominance in recent years of the private sector – the profit motive in social care is a serious drain on the overall budget.

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