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Partnerships in Care is part of the aberration that is Priory Group. It is a private company paid millions of pounds by local authorities to care for the most vulnerable. This is what life is like in one of its homes (thread)
This home is in Gloucestershire. 'Inadequate' is a serious understatement. 
Serious and widespread failures. Children are not protected. Children make no progress.
This has been going on for a long time. Ofsted has been aware. The company doesn't care.
A home in disrepair, including a broken mirror, a bedroom without a door.
Failure to respond to serious incidents of self harm: the details of this particular instance are harrowing.
The organisation has its own clinical team but is putting children at serious risk because the administration of medication is chaotic.
An adult given notice to leave because of child safeguarding issues still lives at the home many weeks later.
Despite this risk, the provider continues to move new children in.
Is this abysmal standard of care down to money? PIC charged local authorities £173 million for care last year, earning profits of almost £10 million.
PIC is ultimately owned by Acadia, a US group which paid £1.3 billion for Priory/PIC a couple of years ago.
Privatising children's services is bad for children and young people, bad for families and bad for taxpayers.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Details of the @Ofstednews inspection are here files.api.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/501010…
