Callum McDonald describes how he and others coped when made to leave their settled homes by the private, profit-making owner
t was the most brutal start to the new year imaginable for Callum McDonald. The autistic teenager was given four weeks to leave the children’s home where he had lived for five years by the Outcomes First Group, one of the country’s largest for-profit care chains.
Homeless and without time to find anywhere else to live in the Welsh border county of Wrexham, McDonald, was forced to leave behind the carers who had brought him up and return to his family more than 100 miles away. “I had to move back in with my dad, which can be difficult,” he said. “I was making progress but feel like I’ve been swept backward.”
Although McDonald was classed as a careleaver when he was evicted, he was still entitled to state support up to the age of 21. A leaving plan put in place by his social worker to allow him to stay in the home to complete a teaching assistant training course, which involved a nearby school placement, was ignored, he claimed. “I was at this nice little school. I knew all the children and staff. It was going well,” he said. “But then I had to leave.
McDonald managed to complete the course remotely after informing his tutors of his predicament. He hopes to work in schools this year: “I did it despite Outcomes First.”
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