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

Child was sent to live in 11 different Airbnbs or hotels and two ‘barren and inhospitable’ houses, as companies profited

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

SafeSpace4U employs a manager who has been accused of rape and its HQ is owned by a convicted drug dealer

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

SafeSpace4U employs a manager who has been accused of rape and its HQ is owned by a convicted drug dealer

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’

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

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’

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