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Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds

Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector

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Thursday briefing: Will the government reform the system to bring down our energy bills?

In today’s newsletter: As UK households face another price‑cap rise, experts warn that years of political drift have left us with one of Europe’s most expensive power systems, but the tools to fix it already exist

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Cut cost of loans for solar panels on UK homes, ministers urged

Report says ‘solar bonds’ could fund wider access to clean energy, reducing household bills

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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims

Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people

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‘More public control’: what will Burnham do about water and energy?

In the fifth of a series on nationalisation, we look at utilities – including the cost of ending private ownership

The Guardian - UK

'£21 in Every £100 Went to Profit': Are Private Equity Firms Draining UK Care?

How private equity allegedly profits from UK fostering agencies impact council budgets and local services. Learn about the financial strain on children's care and the role of public funding.

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Will Andy Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state?

In the first of a series on nationalisation, we look at the critical tests ahead for the PM-in-waiting, from choosing a chancellor to the future of Thames Water

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Cuba could beat US energy blockade with $8bn investment in renewables, says thinktank

Report by Common Wealth argues rest of the world should pay for country’s transition as reparative climate finance

The Guardian - UK

Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable

In Mexico and Spain, leaders who have capped public costs have been rewarded at the ballot box. As another cost of living surge arrives, it may be a policy our leaders are unable to resist, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says

Iran war has increased gas price, with effects on UK energy bills that could be avoided, Common Wealth says

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The Iran oil crisis has proved Ed Miliband right on green energy. But households still need more help

Britain’s whole energy economy needs to be reformed – decarbonising the grid is only part of the mix, says director of Common Wealth, Mathew Lawrence

The Guardian - UK

Calls to move England’s home insulation scheme into council workers’ hands

Thinktank proposes councils stop using private contractors in attempt to improve quality and spending

The Guardian - UK

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

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‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders

Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested

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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation

Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

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‘Birmingham is up the road but there are no buses’: privatisation a dead end for Ludlow

People in the Shropshire town have been left cut off and frustrated by the collapse of public transport

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England to sell eight times more council homes than it built last year, report finds

Depletion of social housing stock spurs calls for councils to have first refusal to buy ex-council homes entering market

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Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society

A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden

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Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’

Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

The Guardian - UK

Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms

Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit

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Europe’s pledge to spend more on military will hurt climate and social programmes

Nato plan to increase military spending overlooks risks to security posed by environmental breakdown and social decay, say economists

The Guardian - UK

‘Grenfell was caused by corporate greed’: report calls for far stronger penalties over unsafe cladding

Exclusive: Thinktank calls for stronger penalties for corporate negligence in England, including directorship and public-contract bans

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Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank

Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

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A great prize, but a great risk: why we all need the nationalised South Western Railway to work

If fares don’t fall and services don’t improve, it could undermine the case for public ownership for a long time to come, says Sarah Nankivell of Common Wealth

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Nationalise gas power plants to boost energy security, thinktank urges UK ministers

Common Wealth says private gas-fired stations can charge exorbitant fees when renewable energy is in short supply

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