@thealienateddad: #Children #FosterCare #Cattle #Private #CPS Experts raise alarm as firms aiming to maximise assets and sell for profit become more involved in vital public services. Private equity companies have slowly and invisibly increased their involvement in public services – from elderly care homes to fostering placements for vulnerable children – with some unintended consequences. Take Compass Community, a private equity-backed firm which provides children’s homes, fostering services and schooling for children with special educational needs (Send). It was sold by the private equity firm Graphite Capital to another private equity group, Cap10, in May 2024, as part of a well-established model to buy up companies, maximise their assets and sell them on for a profit. The consequences for staff and children at the front end of its services was huge. Multiple sources inside the children’s home division said that, as they prepared for sale, they were pressed to rapidly open more homes and take on more children, even when they didn’t have the staff to keep up. They claim they were told this was so the company could be sold for the maximum amount of money. “There was growing pressure to open homes and fill those homes, despite having no managers,” one staff member who worked across multiple homes said. “We started this strategy which was basically: employ anybody. There were massive mistakes being made across the organisation because there were so many people who didn’t know what they were doing.” Staff said that after the sale, the “frenzy just doubled” as the new owners tried to rapidly increase the size of its new acquisition. They said the pressure was intolerable, many children’s homes were left without managers and people left meetings in tears. Ofsted inspections of its homes document the rapid descent. One Compass Community home for six children, previously rated “good” in 2023, was rated “inadequate” in April 2025. Inspectors said the home was “chaotic”, and that children were frequently climbing on the roof and were having sexual intercourse “unnoticed by staff”. “High levels of distress” among the children resulted in self-harm, children going missing and damage to the home, while staff described “riot-like” behaviour from the children who had “lost respect for staff”. It had no registered manager. Another home for eight children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties was rated “outstanding” in 2023 before being marked as “inadequate” and without a manager in April 2025. Inspectors said staff were unable to keep children safe, and decisions to move children into the home were being made by people with no detailed understanding of what was happening there. The use of restraint on the children was not being reviewed and recorded properly, and staff were frequently taking time off work due to feeling unsafe. Sources said a number of care homes had been closed down at short notice, and frontline staff members have been suspended and are facing disciplinary proceedings for failures made during the tumultuous period. “They’re treating children like cattle, and scapegoating everybody on the way out,” one former staff member said.

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Wednesday 09 September 2026 08:47:58 GMT