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• Revealed: money for educating excluded children funded Bolton bar owner’s social life

  03-03-2022 18:48
  
  Call for ‘seismic change’ in social care system after Robert McGuinness’s use of fundsRelated: How did Bolton children’s home receive Ofsted licence then close just months later?The owner of a children’s home in Bolton shut down for “serious and widespread failures” spent thousands intended for educating marginalised children on drinking, foreign trips and his pub business, the Guardian can reveal.Between 2015 and 2021, £1.5m was paid by two local
  
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• How did Bolton children’s home receive Ofsted licence to close months later?

  03-03-2022 18:20
  
  Analysis: Ofsted says Care Standards Act ‘not fit for purpose’ and reform needed to scrutinise care providersEven seasoned professionals were horrified when they read the Ofsted report in which a brand new children’s home in Bolton shut down in January. Inspectors had discovered one child had been living in such “squalid” conditions that flies were hatching in his bedroom, which the boy had not left for four months.The obvious questions followed: how did the private
  
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• How did Bolton children’s home receive Ofsted licence then close just months later?

  03-03-2022 18:20
  
  Analysis: Ofsted says Care Standards Act ‘not fit for purpose’ and reform needed to scrutinise care providersEven seasoned professionals were horrified when they read the Ofsted report in which a brand new children’s home in Bolton shut down in January. Inspectors had discovered one child had been living in such “squalid” conditions that flies were hatching in his bedroom, which the boy had not left for four months.The obvious questions followed: how did the private
  
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