We are calling on the government to re-nationalise our care homes. The Covid-19 pandemic and the care home scandal has shown that private care homes are unacceptable and that care homes should be for people, not for profit. 

Care homes were paid to take in patients from hospitals; many of whom had coronavirus. This, along with a lack of PPE and a lack of guidance has led to a mass cull of the elderly, especially in care homes, where 40% of the total coronavirus deaths in the UK occurred.  

Starting in the 1980's (under Thatcher's rule), care homes initially passed to local authorities were syphoned off as council budgets were squeezed to pay for millionaire tax cuts and corporation tax reductions by successive governments.

The elderly care home sector boasts some fine charitable and non-profit making providers but they are the stark exceptions to the rule of private equity owners and profit obsessed companies who have polluted the sector with poverty pay, pathetic training and zero hours contracts designed to push up profits at the expense of quality care. No wonder Age UK finds over 1.5 million elderly citizens, one in seven, are left without the care they so desperately need.

Sign the petition to DEMAND from Robert Halfon and the government that care homes are taken back into public ownership, that is properly funded and run for people not profit.