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This CareTech children's home in Stockton-on-Tees, run by its (ironically named) Spark of Genius subsidiary: Ofsted has "serious and and widespread concerns" about the safety of children who live here.
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A child was the victim of a serious sexual assault while in the care of the private company Hexagon Care Services, a new Ofsted report into a children's home has
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How voracious private equity firms plunder local authorities to make millions in profits from vulnerable children and young people in care (Thread) 1/ 2/ You may never have heard of
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Keys Child Care, owned by private equity and treating vulnerable children like profit centres. Here's Ofsted raising concerns about one of its children's homes in Warrington. Another shocker. https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5015
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40 years ago this week, I landed in the UK, alone, still only 18, with my life packed into a small, battered suitcase. I had no plan, just a promise
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Another Witherslack children's home has been shut by Ofsted (the second one this week) because of serious risks to children who live there. https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50153294 This one is also in Warwickshire,
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With a great sense of timing CareTech, our biggest for-profit private provider of foster care and children's homes, has reported profits for the latest six months. No better way to
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Shares in CareTech, the UK's biggest private provider of children's homes and foster care, jumped today after the company said #COVID19 has been good for business. 1/ Turns out the
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Just before we went into lockdown, Ofsted inspectors visited Kedleston High Peak children's home and school for 24 children with learning disabilities. What they found is shocking. 1/ Children have
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A #GE2019 thread about Mid Sussex, our constituency. (Reshot to remove reference to LibDem candidate being a former Conservative,). 1/ Mid Sussex has only ever been Tory (first Tim
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