Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children * Princess’s story: the case that highlights scourge of illegal care provision Councils are paying more than £125m a year of taxpayers’ money to place vulnerable children in illegal care homes across England, an investigation has found. The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have uncovered a booming industry of businesses profiting from a shortage of beds for the most at-risk children in Ofsted-inspected homes. Continue reading...

Our major new investigation shows the trade in illegal children’s homes involves hundreds of companies – and a quarter of a billion pounds

Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children

Richard Douglas has a 25-year history of domestic violence allegations

Richard Douglas has a 25-year history of domestic violence allegations

Richard Douglas has a 25-year history of domestic violence allegations

New report cites police, council and charity workers describing the acute dangers faced by children in unregistered settings

New report cites police, council and charity workers describing the acute dangers faced by children in unregistered settings

Exclusive: Varun Chandra’s talks with Google, Meta, Apple and others raise fears of ‘lobbying behind closed doors’

Protective Care Group failed to tell offender’s next boss about ‘substantiated allegation’

An increasing number of vulnerable young people across the country are being placed in children’s homes that are not regulated by Ofsted – which is against the law. In 2024 alone, nearly 800 children ...

Ordeal came after Caerphilly council sent a vulnerable girl 300 miles away to an unregistered home staffed by convicted criminals

Ordeal came after Caerphilly council sent a vulnerable girl 300 miles away to an unregistered home staffed by convicted criminals

Why is the rise in bogus self-employment a problem for all of us?

Ofsted suspended GMT after visiting a dilapidated and unsafe home. Yet its operators are still providing care for vulnerable children

Ofsted suspended GMT after visiting a dilapidated and unsafe home. Yet its operators are still providing care for vulnerable children

Ofsted suspended GMT after visiting a dilapidated and unsafe home. Yet its operators are still providing care for vulnerable children

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Our new messaging guide looks at the methodology and messages that can help us carve out a new approach that will be successful in persuading the public that seeking safety is a fundamental human righ...

Regulators intervene after UK local authority accused of normalising unlawful placements

Some tell the BBC they are encouraged to compete over the number of procedures they carry out on pets.

Home secretary also tells Labour conference fringe event of the abuse her family have been subjected to recently

Housing secretary is set to announce initiative modelled on Clement Attlee’s postwar ‘housing boom’

Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

People living in vans on the park are the subject of a campaign from those living nearby – and the Green-led council is being forced to act

Graham Flatman may have wrongfully given evidence in seven cases uncovered by TBIJ – and that could be the tip of the iceberg

Isle of Wight has paid over half a million pounds for four months of ‘wholly inadequate’ care

A judge has ruled that the standard of care was‘wholly inadequate’ after hearing of staff’s frequent use of restraint and the boy’s social isolation

Residents in state-funded private facilities more likely to receive below standard treatment, according to Oxford University study

Backpack camping is defended after a supreme court ruling, securing access to a unique experience of nature in England

Residents in state-funded private facilities more likely to receive below standard treatment, according to Oxford University study

Some tell the BBC they are encouraged to compete over the number of procedures they carry out on pets.

With regular teaching hours unavailable, agency tutors must compete for lessons

Undercover recording reveals Melanie Gill berating ‘completely biased’ judges who have bought into ‘radical feminism’

Companies supplying ‘freelance’ workers contacted by minister over practices that could breach employment law

Green Party's Deputy Leader Zack Polanski challenges the Home Secretary, as row deepens over police handling of Palestine solidarity march

Facilities giant called ‘uncaring’ by low-paid cleaners, who believed they were covered by a fair-pay pledge Low-paid cleaners have accused the Living Wage Foundation of giving accreditation to an “uncaring” outsourcing company paying less than the…

Airline agency workers kept on minimum wage despite Living Wage Foundation’s fair pay pledge

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