UK council placed 10-year-old in illegal children’s home costing £29k a week
UK council placed 10-year-old in illegal children’s home costing £29k…
Isle of Wight has paid over half a million pounds for four months of ‘wholly inadequate’ care
"The council paid Great Minds Together (GMT), the company that runs the home, 1.2% of its yearly children’s services budget for the 17-week placement."
apparently a non-profit...
And before this it was placing immigrants in hotels via booking.com and then during COVID it was charging outrageous amounts of money for one week in a super crappy quarantine hotel.
Someone is making lucrative deals with the government
Isle of Wight council has been charged £29,000 per week for the placement in a semi-detached house leased by the local authority, at which the boy was the only resident.
Remarking on the cost to the public purse, a judge said: “You could send him to Disney[land] Paris for a month and save some money.”
If you're including housing and getting (expensive) on-Disneyland resort housing, it doesn't look like Disneyland Paris will actually let you book a room for an unaccompanied child.
