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A youngsters’s home operated by Real Housewives of Cheshire star Ampika Pickston has been ordered to shut down completely due to issues over the standard of care offered. Moss Farm Children’s Home in Altrincham, managed by Ms Pickston’s firm AP Care Homes Limited, had beforehand been closed, but an appeal to keep its registration was lodged.

However, the appeal has been rejected by a decide following a tribunal. Led by Judge Siobahn Goodrich, the investigation concluded that there was a “significant” risk of “harm to the health, well-being, and safety” of the youngsters residing at the home.

An Ofsted investigation revealed an incident where a baby went “missing from the home” and subsequently “made an allegation of sexual assault”, with unclear and undocumented actions taken to safeguard the kid. As a outcome, the panel determined that the care home ought to “no longer be authorised to carry on the regulated activity”.

The home, registered with Ofsted in June 2023, was meant to present care and lodging for up to 4 youngsters with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. Inspectors also discovered a high turnover of managers at the home, who reportedly voiced issues about insurance policies to Ms Pickston. Ofsted also identified a “problematic approach to staff” from Ms Pickston.

The physique alleged that this had “overruled management decisions and demanded statements in support of her wild and unanchored views regarding Ofsted”.

In the damning report, it was disclosed that “the Home’s arrangements for protecting children from harm were not effective” and that youngsters had been left “at continuing risk of harm”.

Despite these points, the report did acknowledge that the home was “high end in terms of facilities”, and that “in terms of comfort the view could be easily reached that any child would be lucky to live there”.

However, the choice was taken to dismiss Ms Pickston’s appeal and revoke the home’s registration.

The report concluded: “In our view the risk of harm to the health, well-being and safety of children who may come to live at the Home is significant and has been amply demonstrated by objective consideration of the experiences of many of the children who have lived there.”

Following the verdict, Ampika Pickston expressed she was “heartbroken” by the Ofsted outcome and claimed that the watchdog had “bullied” workers members into offering destructive statements. She vowed to produce a documentary about her expertise.

In a YouTube video assertion on May 26, Pickston exclaimed: “My registration was granted on July 1 2023 to become a registered children’s home. Within four months of the home becoming operational, Ofsted inspectors had placed a notice to close my home down.

“There had been no police investigations, prison exercise, medical notes, LADO reviews that have led to anybody’s DBS being of concern, no social employee or CAMHS supporting evidence to show that any hurt has occurred to a baby while residing at AP Care Homes.”