I know. It should not have happened. The council should not have sent a child to an unregulated home. The regulator should have stopped it operating. But you're right the big picture is a failure to invest in legal homes for the most traumatised kids as well as support services for families & kids.
Thanks you. It is a shocking and upsetting story... so take your time. I hope it will drive change... because this should never have happened.
My full investigation for the @tbij.bsky.social into the worst safeguarding failing uncovered so far in the UK's shadow care system is here 3/3 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
We can also reveal that the other perpetrator was a celebrated British army sniper who killed 39 people in Afghanistan and was profiled in FHM, the Sun and the Guardian 2/3
Yesterday we exposed an appalling abuse scandal in an illegal children's home. Today we can reveal that one of the convicted criminals employed by the firm had neglected a child in his previous job 1/3 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
@tomwall.bsky.social and I will be discussing this investigation - and what happens next - live at 6pm tomorrow. Sign up to join us here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A council sent a highly vulnerable girl to an illegal children's home staffed by criminals
They plied her with alcohol and drugs and sexually abused her
Vital reporting by @tomwall.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.social
I've spent the past 4 months investigating one of the worst safeguarding failures in the shadow care system, where hundreds of kids live in illegal children's homes. My report for @tbij.bsky.social 1/2👇
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Ministers have promised to make work pay - but I've discovered hundreds of workers without employment rights on government contracts from the NHS to the courts. More tonight on File on 4 at 8pm & BBC Sounds now www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It is illegal to run a children’s home that isn’t registered with Ofsted
Yet local councils are increasingly reliant on such placements – and use your money to fund them
A company found to be providing inadequate care by a High Court judge & Ofsted has collected millions for running illegal children's homes.
Two children are currently living in the firm's illegal homes.
New from myself & @garethtbij.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Revealed: Company paid millions of pounds to run illegal children’s homes was suspended by Ofsted after a vulnerable child was found to be sleeping on a mattress on the floor in a run-down bungalow
New for @tbij.bsky.social by me and @tomwall.bsky.social
Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site 👇
You should really listen to what 1000s of doctors are saying - pay restoration over the long term. That's very reasonable. All workers deserve it. But maybe you prefer Streetings misrepresentations.
Maybe ask why so many resident doctors have lost faith in the government to fix the NHS? This is on Streeting.
The 50 richest families in the UK hold more wealth than 50% of the population. If the government taxed that wealth then the NHS wouldn't be on its knees.
That's because much of the media are amplifying Streeting's framing of all the issue. All workers deserve pay restoration - and it's perfectly affordable in one the richest countries on earth.
Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer are doing their best to demonise resident doctors but 1000s have voted for strike action because they are worse off than they were in 2008 - and the service is on its knees because of underfunding.
Such a devastating and important investigation by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne. Glad to have helped in a small way. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
About 50 antiasylum protesters led by far right UKIP leader Nick Tenconi were outnumbered by over 400 anti fascists in Bristol today. Lots of refugees waved at the crowd protecting the Mercure Hotel, with one girl making a silver heart and holding up against the window.
perating a children’s home that is not registered with Ofsted is a criminal offence
Yet, Cornwall Council offered suppliers £6 million to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county – and advertised the contract on a government website
The crisis in children's care is now so deep that one council has been caught openly promoting a multimillion pound contracts to staff illegal children's homes. My latest for the @tbij.bsky.social 👇
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This is why the CMA had to act - corporates have been putting pressure on vets to charge pet owners more. We spoke to whistle blowers who revealed the monitoring & strategies used to maximise corporate profits for this BBC investigation. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This speech epitomises the tragedy of Labour centrists: they call out the dog whistle racism of mass deportations of recent mostly non white migrants but the response is a diet version of the same policy: make it much harder for the same migrants to stay.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Compare the post war efforts to house people with the current government.
🏘️ between 1945 & 1951 over 80% of 1.2 million built were council owned social housing.
🏘️ Only 20% of the 12 new towns to be announced at Lab conference will be social housing
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Everyone should read the case of Fernando Fontoura in The Guardian by @tomwall.bsky.social today. I hope Labour don’t think they’re doing what they’re doing to him in my name. Shocking.
This is the ugly reality of Labour's crackdown on "illegal working": a man who grew up here grabbed on the street, locked up for a month & threatened with deportation. My report for the Guardian 👇
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Every day this Summer has been a record of how Nigel Farage already runs the country.
An endless cycle of hate & racism. One day boat arrivals, the next releasing ethnicity data for crimes, so we can know whether to riot if they’re brown or shrug if they’re white.
Back to the 70s🤦♀️ #r4today
The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects.
They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
