Truly I tell you, today you will be with me
To our American family: we're right here, forever. As we always will be in the joy, in the shock, or in the pain.
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The Safety Inspector Who Stopped Inspecting
The CQC regulates 30,000 health and social care services. In 2024 its outgoing chair told MPs 500 inspection reports were trapped inside a computer system nobody could operate. Meanwhile 5,000 warnings of serious concern sat unread. The body supposed to tell you if your hospital is safe could not.
They Borrowed Against the Rain
Britain’s biggest water company has debt of roughly £17.6 billion and gearing of 85.9%: far above the level Ofwat says is consistent with long-term resilience. It serves 16 million customers and has been kept afloat by emergency funding while creditors and regulators search for a rescue.
Only 1% Of Councils Have Produced Audited Accounts
England abolished its local auditing body in 2015 and replaced it with a market nobody wanted to supply. By 2024, only one per cent of councils had published audited accounts on time. The government's fix: tell auditors to sign off without auditing. The backlog shrank. The books stayed unchecked.
SEND: On April 1st, 68% Of Councils Were Bankrupt
England's councils owe billions for children they were ordered to educate and refused the money to teach. The government's answer: an accounting trick keeping the debt off the books. The trick was due to expire in March. So ministers extended it two years. The crisis was deferred, not solved.