Every Thursday that I stand at my front door along with neighbours and remotely with my grandchildren on FaceTime at 8 pm to applaud and give thanks to those on the frontline I am even more sickened by these events. It cannot be right that much-needed staff who have worked in children’s homes for years judged unfit only by Ofsted have been disqualified from the children’s workforce by a process that completely ignores the right to a proper defense and the potential for decisions to be deliberately engineered for unethical purposes. If we accept that these decisions are reliable without question it unequivocally means that unfit people are caring for the most vulnerable children in society and safer recruitment and child protection arrangements designed to prevent this are not fit for purpose.