Thread by @MartinBarrow, This CareTech children's home in Stockton-on-Tees, run by its (ironically named) Spark [...]

Martin Barrow

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This CareTech children& #39;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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Five children and young people live here. This is what their & #39;home& #39; is like:

More detail here:

Ofsted judged this home to be & #39;good& #39; as recently as December 2019. So either something has gone catastrophically wrong in the few months since, or the December inspection was not fit for purpose.

CareTech is a multimillion pound company listed on the stock market,which makes millions in profits. Its senior executives earn more than £1 million a year.

All this money comes from local authority children& #39;s services and should be spent on care.

There are many problems in children& #39;s services. Privatisation of care is destroying a precarious system, harming children and costing the taxpayer many millions of pounds.

It doesn& #39;t have to be this way.

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