This man is utterly despicable.. these children need stability and care , how can he justify this? 😡😡😡

This what happens when social services and looking after most vulnerable is out sourced to private companies

This is a horrible way to "care" for teenagers 😰 How is dumping a kid in a house with other kids, with no help, no hope, and not even seeing to their basic needs.. how is that anything short of abandonment? They can be bullied or assaulted by other kids or strangers.. this is nothing short of criminal 😠

England has never had an issue stripping the poorest children from their home and even country. They sent them to workhouses then even in my lifetime to Christchurch to be unimaginably abused. England has ALWAYS failed when it comes to at risk children.

I was in several under 16 and over 16 childrens homes just like this in Dover, Ashford, Maidstone and Folkestone. They're more common than you think... Some only care about the money and poorly-manned Social Services don't believe "problem children" like me when we ask for help. Three "supported accommodation" placements I was in after tipped me over the edge during to lack of support and NO basic mental health training which should be mandatory when looking after kids like us. I just can't believe that after so many years this is still an issue. It breaks my heart. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. 😔

What a caring country this is.

For this amount of money, I cannot believe they couldn't find honest reliable people to manage these homes! Why can't families or couples apply to run foster homes of a few kids, monitored by social workers? These numbers are shocking, no wonder it attracts the wrong type of people if it's handed out unchecked!

“This is one of our fleet vehicles we use to provide services to our vulnerable children” his explanations are insults.

And this is the uk in 2019 ! Shame on the uk government !

You know you can send a boy to Eton for 3k a month right?

2:48 "Please Sir, may I have some more?" If this BBC story is true, this is worst than Oliver Twist! (The youth didn't even get a first serving.)

When you see someone refuse to answer what they pay when here where I live you are legally obligated to make it known what you are doing with every penmy you make when relating to those under 18

Council tax being spent wisely I see, 28K a month to look after a teen? how is that allowed?

How is this possible!!! 22,000 pounds! And those starving over 16's would be living on £40.00 as 'benefit scroungers'!!!!! DISGUSTING!

I have lived in supported accommodation and have experienced insane things from housemates doing drugs, violence, exhibiting mental disorders, prostitution and stealing etc. Even had an armed police raid at the property l was living once, it was unheard of l tell you. The supported housing companies just aim to fill up the houses with unvetted individuals (from convicts to average joes) and never have real support in place yet they make so much money monthly charging exorbitant prices like £200 to £250 per room WEEKLY in an 8 bedroom property. The government will willingly pay £800 per person each month for to rent a room in a shared support house of multiple occupants BUT refuse to pay any more than 375 per month as a single person for a private tenant to house you in your own 2 bedroom flat. The system is broken. The photos and videos l got of the going ons in the house l lived will shock the hell out of you. Thank goodness l made it out of that house in one piece... physically, however mentally l think l got maimed.

Thanks for sharing I hope these people don't have anyone in there accommodations anymore this is sickening !!

Why isn't someone holding the councils to account for the fantastic amounts of money they are being scammed?

This is absolutely horrifying to watch. This is what taxpayers are paying for!? Shocking. Makes me sick to think that vulnerable children across the nation live in types of homes like this 🤬. The government need to sort their shit out.

SHAME on those grifters living off taxes - to not even FEED them and have the 'staff' cook in front of them AND deny them food. What despicable excuses for people ... TYSM for advocating for children!!!

Horrific stories of abuse that these young teens and younger children had to endure in a system that was suppose to care for them! I noticed the office manager of this company that took thousands of dollars each month from different properties, was driving a BMW! He wore expensive shoes & suit!

How could local authorities pay upwards of 5000 a month !!! I never got that amount from my parents my whole childhood let alone monthly. I understand it’s a business they pay for a lot but wow

Totally disgraceful, unregulated, hungry...disgraceful =no care..social services should be scrapped immediately and an ethical volantree body installed with empathy....inquiry set up on the SS...God Bless the children.....

If they didn't make fostering and adoption so bloody difficult for people, then there would be no need for places like that.

And the homes these children were removed from probably atleast had food and a duvet for them. No strangers fighting outside their bedroom door! It makes me sick! And thses are the socil workers judging perants!!!

Ridiculous! They should have to provide a set list of provisions for the money they charge. There should be set meals & snacks provided, set items they have to provide for each child & the household, set hours that staff have to spend with each child & group of children, set areas of guidence & tuition that staff should have to cover. There should be regulations & inspections. Surprise inspections,more than once a year. Interviews where children are asked what has been provided for them & if they need anything.

such services should not be outsourced to private companies in the first place. Profit and welfare don't go together.

He says one thing his eyes tell a different thing altogether shame on him 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 fleet car my arse 😒

That man...liar liar his pants on 🔥 lining his pockets... scandalous #SAVETHECHILDREN ❤️🙏❤️

This is the kind of thing I'd expect to see from a grinning con man in Nigeria!

If they are prepared to spend that sort of money why don’t they send them to Eton or other British Public Schools. It would probably be cheaper than what these scam artists are offering.

We have long enquires about child abuse a lots of wringing of hands about previous abuse. But guess what nothing has changed.

Nice car I bet with all money that's being raked in poor kids

The council's should be held accountable. It is there fault. These sums of money paid or the height of lunacy. Greetings from Northern Ireland.

I worked in children's homes for 6 years for a good company i**n terms that staff were supportive and caring to the young people BUT I WAS DUSGUSTED THAT EACH YOUNG PERSON ONLY GOT £50 EACH SPENT ON THEM FOR XMAS WHEN IN ACTUAL FACT THE HOME GOT 2000 TO 30000 A WEEK TO BE HOUSED THERE BY THE COUNCIL !!! I COMPLAINED TO THE MANAGERS BUT WAS IGNORED . I EVEN BROUGHT MY OWN CLOTHES INCLUDING A COAT INTO WORK FOR A YOUNG PERSON WHO COMPLAINED SHE WAS COLD and had only 26 pounds A MONTH CLOTHING ALLOWANCE!!

This man answers with questions by not talk with questions.

Why are we allowing these corrupt Nigerian/African businessmen and woman take advantage of vulnerable children in need of help. He agreed the money paid for each house was true but think about the fact there were no staff or at most 2/3 that's £1,500mth probably in wages gas,elec,rent food this would be around £6- 10,000k mth. Massive prophet margins and unacceptable for the kids.

When is the BBC going report on MELLANIE SHAW?

A foreigner is not the most appropriate person to be setting care standards for British children in British society.

7 million quid a year provided for these vulnerable kids and no security guards or 24 hour policing them to protect them from abuse? K den

These children, lets be clear, are budgeting £44.00 a week. Imagine the difference if councils simply put them in a flat and paid them £200.00 a week. Winner all round, I'd say!

Americans and British govt should be ashamed. I am ashamed of you! Both treat children terribly

So heartbreaking,

This is not knew I could take you back to 1956 where I was put because nobody wanted me there was no where else to put me we were treated like convicts with a cruel regime I know that there are friends of mine who still suffer the consequences today they ruined my life I’ve suffered mental illness ever since. I was 15 I will talk to anyone about it .!,,,

It breaks my heart to see two young people who clearly haven’t had someone who genuinely cares about them and wants them to feel loved and wanted

So pretty much Oliver Twist still.

Another great report. Please keep reporting.

These crooks how dare they do this to them put there asses in JAIL that's abuse !!!

Make no mistake. You can equally blame the councils and the companies. How do you expect to keep the companies in charge without holding the authorities to a higher standard?

This is what privatization is. This is what the Tories promote and what anyone who supports them voted for.

6:59 "commercial sensitive information" is the bill that the councils pay. This should change

Not Registered? Wtf? Or regulated?

Britain is getting closer to their dark days, more british children homeless sleeping on the streets, british educational system is going down, 50,000 british young people are at risk on being homeless and more british children are committing suicide due to mental health cuts. Britain is losing it's patriotism and courage.

The NHS isn't corrupted. The entire planet is. No one cares. Stay strong, everyone.

This is disgusting the poor and vulnerable are treated worst than criminals in this divided and unequal country

In the early 1980s I was that age and on my own in Bristol, I lived in a grotty bedsit and for a while in the back of a van. I went to social security and they didn’t want to know as I was under 18, at no point did anyone ever tell me that local councils cared for over kids aged 16 & 17. Once I was 18 I was able to get social security to pay rent, but by then I’d found a job.

I'll assume he hires people OFF the books, cash. 60K a MONTH???? That's almost 10K/child .... Those poor children are evidently not receiving 8-10K worth of care and support a month. As an at risk youth myself this is why I chose not to enter the care system.... Those poor kids- already so alone at such a young age in need of basic care- to then be re-abused.... This MUST be addressed in order to prevent the psychological damage that can lead one to snap and take out their anger (and poverty/needs) on society!!!

How these animals can justify getting paid vast amounts to provide absolutely nothing is disgusting! To not have any empathy, compassion or heart towards these young souls is the work of Satan. If regulated correctly this can easily be rectified.

Many places have this. Not only there but also in Tower Hamlets

These figures are a disgrace, as is the inadequate service being provided to these young people. A child is a child and should be treated with care and compassion but humans have stopped being human and have stooped to being money worshiping bastards.

Echos scars 😓😥😥😓

Thanks to Austerity!

Reasons for strict regulations that actually safeguard these vulnerable children! The regulations need to be for safeguarding and not to make it difficult for business owners to provide the correct service for placements.

They only pay it because he has some on in the council oking the extortionate payments

This is exactly what happened to me

Imagine giving £11000 a month to each of those families to care for their children! And yet it's Benefits that are the problem, hah?

look at mash in colliers wood merton surrey I was there when I was 14 we got kicked out at 7.30 in the morning and not allowed back until 5.00 wholes in the walls no food sharing rooms with other children and older 18 year olds unsupported even with staff

I lived at Burbank wych hill woking 1975-77' wild times as I was invited to attend a seance! And got rushed to the hospital twice as I almost bleed to death.

How can 20,000 pounds a month be cheaper for councils? And these people are kicked out at 16, 17, 18 and called 'benefit scroungers'. They are where all the money is going, are they?

Heart breaking all these children needed was stability...guidence understanding and a safe place to live this wasn't it.... how the council's didn't seek the statement of purpose stating the ages of children that would be housed with this money grabbing scumbag is beyond me ....regs 8 clearly doesn't attend these properties neither did the children's parental guardian their social workers to have allowed hunger to occur...staff appear shocking in listening to this, where were their duty of care for these vulnerable children.. let down for money.... support? They supported each other....heartbreaking

Perhaps not all but most of some of those youngsters I need would have made it OUT of the system and gone on to contribute to society, had that ASTRONOMICAL amount of benefit monies went directly to them (of course with a council member supervisor and advising)....

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Nigerians are the ones that operate these business's and care Agencies I know becouse i worked for one and the way they operate putting carers out into homes and the community beforecthey are DBS checked is shocking. Needless to say i left becouse i did not like how they operated.

These crooks buy things and say they use it for the business to avoid tax SMFH!!!

If everyone was a decent fuckin person and everyone looked out for each other like those two young women takin care of the younger housemates, the government wouldn’t need to donate so much money and it wouldn’t attract greedy, selfish abusers.

'no one is holding them at throat level'??? Local Authorities are squandering Tax Payers money..... most of these kids would generally fair better with their parents. That 70'000 pcm rent could be far better spent. :(

Easy money to them.. you could already tell by the car and the way that man is in total denial. "I've got nothing to hide". Yet he takes the woman to another house? Not even the one the teenagers live in. It's disgusting the "care" they say happens. The "support" that gets so overused as a word. These teenagers need practical and emotional support. They don't choose to be in care. ❤

Investigate GREENACRES in Calne Wiltshire from the 50s!!!!!!!!

I implore anybody who is anti abortion to please sit down and have a chat with someone who grew up in care.

I'm glad I got looked after .After care should be there properly .It's all to do with money

I was in a children's home in Birmingham Northfield it was horrible I was visited by a 17 year old friend.. In the laundry room and I was raped there twice I couldn't say nothing as I was new and scared of the other older kids I shared a room with crystal who tort me to steel but I didn't have the guts I ran away a lot from there

Those man is a manager of the care home?

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This is just another example of poor government rules. How could someone charge that much for rent and have that attitude. We as the tax payer are just being abused along with countless kids.

It’s child trafficking

This man is so slimey .. BMW for picking up these vulnerable children .. as if!!!!!!

70k a month for six kids. Someone needs to look into that. This man’s a piss taker at 70k a month. He says no one is holding at throat level, but it’s this or that, and that isn’t good for the kids. So yeah a piss taker. Our government should hold this man to ransom to. You want to live her, 70k a month. You want to leave, you leave everything behind, no one’s at throat level there

The amount 18 grand month he does no support pay train foster parents its cheaper and they can give these vulnerable children home life

Should be ofstead run inspection

Shameful

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Let's support Rashfords campaign, Vote Labour

a huge money making empire he laughs all the way to bank everyday while care kids go hungry

Those Ms gabbulu should be accountable for his actions.

Jesus, imagine being one of those £2000 a month kids stuck in a house with the £20,000 a kids -- sounds like a horror movie -- poor things haven't got a chance.

It's mostly foreigners in on this scam.

Those company boss.....

Foriegners again taking advantage of our lack of interest

mcr best i live alone i love mcr council therefore

Youth is true wealth. Old people are deprived of this wealth: 'Should this life sometime deceive you, Don't be sad or mad at it! On a gloomy day, submit: Trust - fair day will come, why grieve you? Heart lives in the future, so What if gloom pervade the present? All is fleeting, all will go; What is gone will then be pleasant'

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