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Cambian profits soaring since their 2018 takeover by CareTech. Cambian management sent young and vulnerable children to live with older violent teenagers in order to keep care facilities at a high capacity. One former Cambian manager described the competition between privately companies such as Cambian as "like a cattle market for children". To meet the allegations, Cambian's chief operating officer Anne Marie Carrie offered to establish an interview with journalists, however she withdrew the offer later stating that she “has better things to do tomorrow than assist in a journalistic exercise which is devoid of legitimacy”.
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trauma this may be increasing problems and leading to fostering breakdown and multiple moves. They wish to help children come to terms with their experiences by addressing the conflict between the child's chronological and emotional ages and by working at the child's pace. For SACCS, recovery means 'when the child has internalized their attachments and consolidated their emotional development to a point where these can be successfully transferred to other environments and relationships. The child is then deemed to have the potential to achieve full ability in all aspects of their life.'
107:(previously Cambian Group PLC) is a private limited company known colloquially as 'Cambian'. The company provides specialist residential and educational services for children and young adults with a range of Special Educational Needs (SEN) and social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). Cambian is one of the largest providers of specialist behavioural health and care services for children in the United Kingdom. Its children's services comprise specialist education, specialist residential care,
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Cambian would have increased opportunities
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costs. Cambian responded to these allegations by labelling the staff as "malcontents", and claimed that toilet paper and other items posed a "safeguarding risk" to children with learning disabilities and autism.
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filmed Cambian staff abusing residents including children, which was then broadcast in a television documentary. In 2018 an investigation by Buzzfeed accused Cambian of putting profit above care. In 2020
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