➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
United Kingdom: Fostering children is big business
The Telegraph – May 07, 2016
Most people would be startled to learn how much of the child protection sector is now dominated by a handful of companies, most of them run by ex-social workers. These companies are paid huge sums by local authorities to make their fostering arrangements. Several have become such big business that they are traded by private equity funds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/07/fostering-children-is-big-business/