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Surely nobody is shocked by this When I worked in an Oxfordshire Children's home, we were asked to house an Asylum Seeker He had been in a Police cell and was reaching the 48hr limit He had been seen and assessed to be between 23-25 Yet he claimed he was a 'child' This was completely against policy and procedures It put staff in the home at substantial risk The Corporate Parent who was the manager on call that night 17.12.17 put in place a number of conditions, not ONE of them were met That he was searched in the cell before he left, body, clothes, belonging That a risk assessment would be carried out That an extra member of staff would be brought in to do a waking night shift.... I made it very clear that it was against policy and procedures, it put staff and residents at risk, we had been assured that we were not to be used as an emergency bed placement and staff would have our back if we refused I ended up with a knife in my chest as a direct consequence of this I was denied hepatitis vaccines and blood screening This is why I Whistleblew I included the repeated failures to listen to staff when raised concerns I included the failures to carry out adequate Risk Assessments I included a pattern of Safeguarding failures and significant harm caused to a number of children in the home as a direct result of failures to listen when staff spoke up These included children who were running County Lines drug trafficking Children who were involved in Child Sexual Abuse Children who were caused significant harm as a direct result of these failures I raised concerns about a number of children who DIED and they LIED to cover up their failures Both Oxfordshire County Council and Thames Valley Police were involved in covering up this horrific incident Just as they collude to cover up Child Sexual Abuse in Oxfordshire