Terrifying truth about how care homes are run | Letters

Readers share their views on how for-profit social care is failing the most vulnerable in societyYour report of the serious neglect of residents in several private care homes (Scandal of UK’s worst care homes revealed, 24 November) raises the fundamental question of whether looking after some of our most vulnerable individuals should be left largely in the hands of the market.The privatisation of the care sector was one of the most profound and nakedly ideological changes of the Thatcher/M