• ‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures

    ‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures
    Staff warn vulnerable children may be harmed as they struggle to find placements after 28 homes given deadline to shut by chainOne of the UK’s largest for-profit care chains has been accused of failing dozens of vulnerable children by shutting 28 residential homes, with staff warning they are struggling to find placements for all the children.Outcomes First Group, which is owned by private equity firm Stirling Square, is planning to close a string of children’s homes across the Midla

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