A care home where children set a bedroom on fire, use cannabis and demonstrate ‘extreme aggression’ when demanding pocket money from staff has been criticised by inspectors.Ofsted carried out an ‘urgent monitoring inspection’ of a facility in Oldham and identified a series of ‘poor practices’ around the care being provided in a damning report.The visit was prompted by a safeguarding notification which alerted the watchdog to a fire which had been ‘deliberately started’ by two children in a bedroom on June 5.Social care regulatory inspector Maria McGranaghan stated that the location of the children’s home – which is not publicly available – was a source of risk to youngsters living there as it ‘lends itself to swift and easy access to.
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