inappropriately restraining him. what would you like to say to families what would you like to say to families of what would you like to say to families of children what would you like to say to families of children abused . what would you like to say to families of children abused in what would you like to say to - families of children abused in your care? we confront the chief executive of the company about the mistreatment of people in their care. president biden meets the irish prime minister and addresses the country s parliament on the second day of his visit when mary quant invades new. and tributes to the fashion designer dame mary quant, designer of the mini skirt, who s died aged 93. and coming up in sport. it s a european night under the lights at old trafford. but have manchester united moved a step closer to the europa league semi finals? the fbi has arrested a suspect alleged to be linked to the leak of hundreds of highly classified us intelligence docume
Is chris mcsharry, who recently bought and developed this equestrian centre. accounts suggest he has received at least £5 million as a director since 2006. he has refused to be interviewed about both of our investigations. mr mcsharry, bbc news why didn t you properly investigate the abuse in your homes? mr mcsharry, what would you like to take to the families of children abused and neglected in your care? as chief executive why don t you respond to these questions, mr mcsharry? in a statement hesley said up to six people may not have been immediately referred to dbs but had now been, and that improvements were made across the company after the 2010 report. this shows a company that is repeatedly not following the rules. this senior mp says our investigation is deeply shocking. the historical findings back in 2010, the fact that those were then being repeated in other settings and the fact that systemically, the disclosure and barring scheme have not been used or informed effectivel
Mr mcsharry, what would you like to say to the families of children abused and neglected in your care? there was the psychological abuse, physicalabuse, there was unexplained bruises. oliver is autistic and has complex needs, meaning he can t live at home. his mother says she was told he faced abuse and neglect in 2019 at hesley despite his replacement costing taxpayers around £300,000 a year. a retired social worker was actually passing a minibus and they saw staff strangling him. oliver is one of more than 100 young people feared to have been harmed despite the best efforts of his parents. it became my full time job, e mail after e mail including the chief exec. i felt i should be able to protect my son from harm. but i couldn t. but we ve learned it s not the first time hesley has been investigated. we found residents being unsupervised, neglected.
We improve the system. hesley continues to educate and accommodate vulnerable people while the government has promised to strengthen standards of care, but families of children say they are concerned that lessons won t be learned once again. our social affairs editor alison holt is with me now. alison you have reported on safeguarding issues and abuse in the care of adults and children we see more in noel s report tonight why does it appear that lessons aren t being learned? that is the key question. i have reported on far too many cases where there are allegations of abuse in there are allegations of abuse in the treatment of children and adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health issue. in 2011 the winter bourne abuse scandal, it was exposed by the bbc, there was an outcry, change was promised and that
Eight years before, this confidential report discovered 99 proven cases of abuse at a placement for young adults. there was an incident with a member of staff importing a taser gun, we asked a social worker to go out and interview him, and at interview, he confirmed that he had bought the taser intending to use it at work for his own protection. the report s author says lessons should have been learned. it doesn t seem to have had any impact at all, the local authorities just continued to feed people into this system. hesley continues to make these massive profits. that is their facebook. our team wanted to find out what happened to staff who worked in hesley children s homes. we found that support workers accused of assault were able to get newjobs at different companies, and we ve also learned that some staff accused of abuse were not immediately referred to the barring service. the hesley chief executive