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Wakefield pays "fine" of £1 Million for Shooting Messenger

The link is to one of the stories where Wakefield Childrens Services sacked Care Workers for blowing the whistle on child abuse in Wakefield Childrens Homes.

This seems to happen with considerable regularity. Vide Haringey.

Six care workers sacked for revealing a shocking catalogue of
mismanagement in children's homes to the Yorkshire Post have won a £1m settlement from Wakefield Council.

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ESCAPE said…
Oh I do so hope you have sent a copy of this to Gornell, I bet all thoes making negative comments after his article will be a bit quiet for a while. I hope you are getting in touch with these 6, what have they left to loose, but help change the system they obviously thought was worth working for once.
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