Tusla – Ireland’s Child and Family Agency – is outsourcing the care of Vulnerable Children to private companies. And when care becomes a commodity, compassion takes second place. Private homes charge €600–€1,200 a day, high-support placements €1,000–€1,500, and emergency placements up to €3,000 a day……that’s €1 million a year for one child. Companies make 10–25% profit margins, directors take home minister-level salaries, and all of it is funded by public money and children’s pain. This isn’t compassion. It’s commerce. An industry that profits from broken homes and trauma. It’s eerily similar to the Privatisation of Prisons in America, once profit entered the system, laws changed, and the cells filled. Now, Tusla is building a business model on childhood pain. A broken Child should never come with a profit margin attached.

Posted by Fred Bassett