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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Prina Shah |Anna Leach |Zeke Hunter-Green |Tural Ahmedzade |Pamela Duncan |Mark Townsend
The villa is stunning. The private swimming pool; the lush, landscaped terrace with firepit; the long dining table with its expansive balcony view; the pingpong table; the piano. But the jewel in the crown, according to the Airbnb listing, is the experience of watching the sun rise over the nearby mountains from the luxury of the generous master bedroom.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Pamela Duncan |Carmen Aguilar García |Michael Goodier |Olivia Lee |Lucy Swan |Tural Ahmedzade | +2 more
When the news broke of stabbings at a children’s dance class in Southport this summer, a palpable sense of grief, horror and anger rippled across the country. From the collective anguish brought on by the incident in which three young girls died, variations on the same question emerged: “Who would do such a thing?”Fabricated internet rumours claimed to have the answer: the man to blame was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK illegally last year and was on an M16 watchlist.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Pamela Duncan |Zeke Hunter-Green
Private schools’ grounds and student numbersThe aim was to find out how much green space the UK’s private schools own compared with state schools, as part of the Guardian’s continuing investigations into access to green space. Given the complexity of the task the decision was taken to restrict the research to what were traditionally known as public schools, using the 350 or so schools with membership of the HMC group as a proxy.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Pamela Duncan |Zeke Hunter-Green
Private schools’ grounds and student numbers Cricket nets and playing field at Dulwich College, south-east London. Photograph: View Pictures/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The aim was to find out how much green space the UK’s private schools own compared with state schools, as part of the Guardian’s continuing investigations into access to green space.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Shanti Das |Marjan Kalanaki |Zeke Hunter-Green
Hundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal. Suspected bogus companies with copy-and-paste websites, fake-looking reviews and PO boxes as addresses are among those granted licences allowing them to sponsor workers to come to the UK.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
business-humanrights.org | Shanti Das |Marjan Kalanaki |Zeke Hunter-Green
"‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors”Hundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal…Sponsor licences have been granted to newly formed firms that have never filed company accounts and are only a few months old.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
msn.com | Carmen Aguilar García |Zeke Hunter-Green |Michael Savage
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Carmen Aguilar García |Zeke Hunter-Green |Michael Savage
Serious concerns have been raised over the growing influence of private equity in the provision of children’s care homes, after an Observer investigation revealed that the number of homes backed by investment companies has more than doubled over five years. The news comes with children’s social care directors, council leaders and campaigners for those in care accusing some businesses of profiteering from their involvement in children’s social care.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Maeve McClenaghan |Rob Evans |Henry Dyer |Zeke Hunter-Green |Marjan Kalanaki
The king is profiting from the deaths of thousands of people in the north-west of England whose assets are secretly being used to upgrade a commercial property empire managed by his hereditary estate, the Guardian can reveal. The Duchy of Lancaster, a controversial land and property estate that generates huge profits for King Charles III, has collected tens of millions of pounds in recent years under an antiquated system that dates back to feudal times.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Carmen Aguilar García |Carmen Garcia |Michael Goodier |Alexandra Topping |Zeke Hunter-Green |Lucy Swan | +1 more
England’s childcare sector risks becoming a “playground for private equity”, experts have said, as exclusive analysis from the Guardian reveals investment funds have more than doubled their stake in the sector in just four years. The findings come as the Treasury prepares to spend an extra £4bn a year of taxpayers’ money funding nursery places.
