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Unity Care Keeps Asylum Seeking Children in Poverty

Former Employee | 04.07.2008 07:10 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | Birmingham

Unity Care Services of Portland Road, Birmingham, who used to be called Principal Housing Care, are still profiteering from Local Government money to live Millionaire lifestyle, while they keep children in poverty conditions. While they live in mansions, and drive luxury cars, children live in run down properties with no support and very little money to exist.

luxury cars driven by directors
luxury cars driven by directors

millionaire mansions of directors
millionaire mansions of directors

millionaire mansions of directors
millionaire mansions of directors

luxury millionaire offices of Unity Care
luxury millionaire offices of Unity Care


Corrupt, Profiteering Social Landlord Uses Government Money to Live Millionaire’s Lifestyle

Principal Housing Care Ltd changed its name to Unity Care Services but still continues to abuse its position, and the local authorities are fully aware of it. Principal housing Care (now Unity Care Services of 9 Portland Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9HN, Company No. 06437659, Tel 0121 454 8703), who house unaccompanied asylum seeking children on behalf of various social services including Birmingham, Solihull, Worcester Northampton, Sandwell and Telford, were investigated in the first quarter of 2007 for the shockingly poor standards of their accommodation and the extremely poor standards of care they were providing. They have now been shown to have been profiteering and employing dangerous people with no police checks in place, to look after very vulnerable unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

The directors live in millionaire mansions and drive Bentley sports cars, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Luxury Mercedes and Luxury BMW cars, while they keep asylum seeking children in run-down, unfit, unmaintained houses in unsuitable dangerous neighbourhoods / areas.

The company charge local authorities exorbitant fees for housing and support of children (up to £280 per week per person) but consistently leave children in poverty conditions with damp unfit housing with no heating etc. and little or no support.

The company employed a practising insolvency practitioner to put together accounts that try to hide a million pounds profit a year, while these children get £35 per week to feed and clothe themselves.
The directors are using government money gained from profiteering to set up other companies that also con the tax authorities. They are directors of 22 other companies set using this money gained from profiteering government money, and these companies have not filed any accounts, and will then be put into liquidation.

The directors employed their family and paid them cash, so that they could remain on benefits, they also rent properties from family members but encourage that family member to illegally claim benefit from the rented house, thus stealing government money at two more different sources.

Using money gained from profiteering government contracts they set up companies that sell property off plan, these off plan deals had no planning permission and they conned all the people who reserved apartments off plan out of approx, £7500 per person, thus using government money to con unsuspecting victims (one of these companies was Willow Walk Ltd in Wolverhampton).

The company hostel in West Bromwich, after 5 years of operation still does not have a license for H.M.O. and sleeps up to 25 vulnerable young children at any one time, these children are new to the country, do not speak English and would not understand what to do in the event of a fire etc. even if the hostel was licensed.

They employ family with no experience no qualification and no police checks, 2 of the people that Principal Housing Care (Unity Care Services) used to and still do employ, and who are members of the directors family’s, are not suitable to work with young vulnerable children. One has now been police checked now, this is the husband of the Director and shareholder of Unity Care Services and is still employed by the company, who whilst working for the company was charged with a racially motivated violent aggravated assault, this is on top of his past history of criminal activity. This person has unsupervised access to children come to this country from such places as Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. and who is shown to be a practicing violent racist.

The other person is a brother of the other director who was a director of Principal Housing Care Ltd but who is not now I understand a director of Unity Care Services, This person was convicted of attempted murder of his brother’s wife and was sent to a secure hospital for the mentally ill. This person was employed by the company for a period of 6 months at the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007, and had full access to the children in the hostel and at their houses, being made an authorised property inspector, with his own set of keys to each house.

The directors continue to profiteer from government money, live life’s of luxury, but continue to be negligent in the extreme, they have and continue to put very vulnerable children in potentially dangerous situations, giving unfit people unrestricted and unsupervised access to vulnerable children at all times. All with the knowledge of the local authorities.

Former Employee
- e-mail: principalhousingcare@hotmail.co.uk


Comments

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name and shame the scum

04.07.2008 09:52

i see you have photographs of their homes. would be good to publicly name them and give their addresses - people could write letters to them.....

scum bag shits. it's these kind of people who profit off of concentration camps.

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jamestomlin@talktalk.net

10.07.2008 07:53

Thease people need to be locked up. In this day and age taking advantage of young people who so desperatly need help and support......ITS CRIMINAL.

James Tomlin


Shame on you would you treat your own children like this

10.07.2008 16:25

Why would social services allow their children to cared for by these monsters

Melanie


Social Services Need to be shamed as well

12.07.2008 18:29

These people are the worst type of people you can imagine for using children in this manner to get rich and live this life style, but what about social services letting it happen, they must be aware of what these people are up to but appear to letting them away with it. It is a national scandal and outrage

Bobby


If this was British Children this would be front page news

12.07.2008 18:36

If this was happening to British Children this company would be ridiculed on the front page of every newspaper in the land, but because it is ASYLUM CHILDREN the government ( social services ) what to keep it hush, hush due to the political nature, Asylum Seekers have never won anyone any votes !!!!

Paul


Back Handers

13.07.2008 08:56

Knowing these type of people there are more than likely a few back handers going on to people in positions of trust

lindy


Warning Con People

15.07.2008 18:01

There names are Kulvinder Dehl( Kindi) and Saghwat Hussain (Siggy)
They have many companies aimed at ripping people off
Dream World Devolopments is one of the big ones selling property of plan in morocco
Be warned if you get mixed up with them you will be coned !

Ripped off


Time to call it a day / Social services do something about it

15.07.2008 20:12

I believe that companies like this suceed because social services look at the cost and not the quality. I would imagine that these people charge very little and give very little IN RETURN. this is the reason why this type of shambles can drive top of the range cars.

I believe there is a lot of inside trading within social services, also the back stabbing and competiveness of the providers is very wide spread. I recently had a conversation with a young person and I would sugest social services need to investigate a company called Greenways, that sounds like another horror story. They have large numbers of vulnerable young people.

The bottom line is the people that could make a difference just dont care about these young people enough, the people to blame for all this suffering is the people responsible for making the decisions of where young people are being placed. SHAME ON YOU.

Kenneth


Jelousy

16.07.2008 20:55

Jelousy dosent help antbody, i truly believe the indiviual who wrote this article has a personnel vendeture against this company, his claims are false. government procedure is that before any one moves in to any propeerty it has to be checked and this has always been the case with Unity Care Services.

RSM (ASK ) GIA


Well Well Well Unity Finally Respond

16.07.2008 23:23

After all this time the best response that Unity can respond with is not a denial but a statement that someone is out to get them ( a smoke screen ). Is it any wonder that people are not happy with them with their past and present performance, and actually think they are vile for the way they treat young people

Bobby


Glass Houses.......

21.07.2008 16:13

I completely agree that companies like these should not exist let alone prosper. Children should be protected from companies such as these, they are vulnerable, from bad and sometimes horrific backgrounds. This is not how they should remember their childhood and quite rightly, if they were children born in Britain this matter would have long been exposed to the press.
There are many organisations out there willing to care for these children but are not given the opportunity. Social Services or Social Inclusion and Health (whatever they are calling themselves lately) have never had a great reputation with the community, mostly due to their lack of empathy, imcompetence and general disregard for anyone other than themselves but they have surpassed themselves this time. There is obviously some money being passed to someone under the table for this to go on for so long. But who is in charge? With Social Services/Social Inclusion and Health you can never tell and i doubt they really know themselves. Its wrong, it shouldn't happen but what is happening about it?? Which leads me back to my title....

Who started this off? A disgruntled employee? Ex Partner? Ex Director? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they brought this to light but what part did they play in Principle Housing Care? How do they know so much? What have they done to expose this sham of a company?

Helena

Helena


Last comment so true.

21.07.2008 21:18

I know these people, social services have been informed of all the mal practice and to be honest they dont really give a toss. they are more concerned with who they get on well with this company has been in the lime light for a long time now, but still remain in buisness.

Birmingham, Solihull, Worcester still have young people placed with principal knowing full well that this company may have changed there name but not there standard of care.

There are companies out there that deliver a good service thats evidenced and fully recorded, social services need to look at the alternatives to these old school profit only services. now is the time to look at providers that care. COME ON SOCIAL SERVICES GET SOMETHING RIGHT FOR ONCE.

Alan


mr sheen

24.07.2008 16:43

Been a ex employee of unity care ltd every thing that as been said about this company is true the houses that the boys are put in are not fit for pigs ,and the social workers are as much to blame as when the boys do complain its pushed under the carpet Boys were aloud one piece of fruit aday and the cheeperst cola you could by that was in the westbromwich Hostle everything you bought was smart price no wonder the boys complained all the time about the meals i bet the managmernt ate the best of evertthing . so i can honestly say every thing that is wrote about unity is true and somthing needs doing streight away

flash


So it was true

25.07.2008 14:05

first it was Midlands refugee Council(MRC) and know its child care. You must admit these guys are good at there job.

let me know if there is any new business adventures in the future

Ex employee

roger


Whos to blame?

27.07.2008 15:00

I see lots of X employees comments, but its too late to comment now.
Where were your comments at the time if you believed children were being abused?
Did you not swear to uphold the child's best interest at all times and work towards erradicating abuse!!
You are as much to blame as anyone-
The same goes for Local authorities who visited daily-

Linder


Unity are to Blame

29.07.2008 07:58

I agree Social Services should do something about Unity but It don't matter what price is being paid for the Unity Service, Unity are selling a service that they are not delivering on and they are getting away with it.
UNITY IS THE COMPANY WHO SELL THIS SEVICE, THEY ARE TO BLAME.

Jim


Sour Grapes and Rotton Apples

31.07.2008 16:37

A good friend informed me about this because they thought i would know the people involved. And reading all these comments i've found that i do and would like to add my own comments.

Sour grapes! Ex employees, partners whoever you are, making these statements after you have left the company is cowardly, pointless and only proves that getting paid was your main priorty while you were employed/associated with Principle Housing Care and Unity Care. Whether you left on the grounds that you felt helpless with all the wrong-doing that was going on we will never know. Some of you that have left have done your own thing or tried to do your own thing. Those who have succeeded well done, move on, put it down as an educational experience, the "what not to do in business" part of your life. Those who have failed, ask yourselves why... Could it be that you have tried to run corrupt firms like those that you were expelled from? Working with the wrong people? Whatever it is, get over it. Move on. You won't win and thieves never prosper.

Rotton apples? All these comments prove that there are rotton apples out there that are making this industry damn hard for all the other organisations out there. It's very easy to sit behind a computer and slag these people off, especially when they respond so poorly, it just gives us more ammunition to shoot them down but why all the bad comments? I agree that what they have done is extremely bad and anyone with a few ounces of decency wouldn't have done it but if my suspicions are correct, the ex employees/partners who have made comments are just as rotton and are unhappy about their current situations. Stop whining about being used and abused, stop feeling sorry for yourselves, fix your own lives before you slander other peoples. You are to blame for where you are.

Now i've said my piece, i'm not any part of the companies mentioned and i'm not associated with them in any way but i have heard a lot of stories. I don't condone what they have done but i don't agree with slandering people either. This was not started to help the children in their hostels, it was started purely because of sour grapes and rotton apples.

Sam


Theives do Prosper

01.08.2008 08:38

It is very naive to say thieves do not prosper look at the directors live styles, massive thefts and cons all their business lives , thieves obviously do prosper !!, but this is not the point, social services are still letting these children stay at Unity and let Unity abuse their position.

Paul


It could improve the childrens situation

02.08.2008 14:43

I have to say that looking at the comments of the various people it does look as if most of the comments are aimed at trying to improve the situation of the children by asking Social Services why they are letting Unity get away with this outrageous behaviour.

Lindy


FEEDBACK TO THE LAST COMMENT AND OTHER FALSE ALLEGATIONS

19.08.2008 12:41

I firstly just want to get the record straight - KELLY KAUR - from Midland Homes has got NOTHING to do with the above allegations. I am speaking as her personal friend and as her colleague. I have known Kelly for a number of years and she is the most Honest, Loyal person you can meet.

Secondly this sight is getting out of control*****************************************

Please make you complaints to Social Services Birmingham - As a up standing member of Birmingham City Council - I think this is Outrageous and need to be investigated properly.


RyA1981 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

RyA198!****************


AND ------------------------- FURTHER MORE

22.08.2008 11:46

I personally i am disgusted at the fact this site is not 'LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE'. Is this not about the the treatment these poor childran have to suffer.

Or is it about your own guilt and Insecurities??????????

I further like to add that Midland Homes is a very successful Estate Agency Based on North West Birmingham. There is no UNDER HANDED ACTIVITIES, happening, happened or due to take place. The company runs well on HONEST money after all lets be honest - WE ALL HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD.

V.J was dismissed from the company 1 year 2 months ago. There are no further links to this man and Kelly Kaur. Obviously people have to blame other for their wrong doings.

One last thing the - in your opinion the Knightsbridge Building apparently 'LOOKS GOOD FROM THE OUTSIDE'.

DID YOU DESIGN THIS BUILDING AND THEN GO AND WORK WITH THESE FRAUDS????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE - SO COME AND FACE US IF YOUR MAN ENOUGH?

RYA1981


Scammers Scammers Scammers! Stay AWAY CON ARTISTS!

07.12.2008 20:20

The word is out! These guys are all con-artists! Keep away!

Steve Singh


UNITY ARE STILL ALLOWED TO HOUSE (AFTER ABUSE)

15.12.2008 23:16

The cook at the hostel took one of the young people outside and beat him up ,I seen it happen ! The young people are so scared that they will be deported they put up with it (any thing), and will not speak out.
Young people are still being housed at Unity`s hostel at 65 Beechs rd ,West Bromwich
PLEASE social services see past the posh office and the patter of these people.
I AM A EX ASYLUM SEEKER .I work there and am able to speak out I dont care any more if I lose my job it`s gone to far.
Mr Z

suzi wong


Did you really?

03.01.2009 10:43

If you really saw this alleged abuse take place then why did you not inform the manager of the company or ring the police? Which decent citizen, of which you clearly are not, would witness a vulnerable young person being assaulted and not either intervene or ring the police, never mind going to the manager afterwards!

You still clearly have too much time on your hands - have you considered taking up a hobby to fill the gap?! All these claims that you consistently make just show that you are incredibly jealous of Unity Care Services and that you are spiteful. Get a life!

You've clearly got too much time on your hands!


Peter

14.02.2009 12:05


Defending these guys??? What do you have to hide?

Dear All,

As someone who is currently taking legal action against some of these "Scum Bags" i find it incredible that some people seem to be defending them !!! Clearly that is either due to a connection with them, profiteering too or you really do not care about the hurt and pain they have caused to so may innocent people. Please look in the mirror as your day may come sooner than you think.

Peter


search on Saghwat Siggy

14.04.2009 20:20

Siggy Saghwat is responsible of an swindle of more than 200 000 euros to me in morroco. I do not include the others swindle that h has with others person in morocco.

Everyone who has a complain on him can contact me.

I will do everything to have justice and stop this guy to con everybody.

He should be in jail from a long time.

Morocco
mail e-mail: guigui.e@caramail.com


For Anyone interested

17.04.2009 13:10

Just Found this on the bankruptcy register for anyone interested

Report for Bankruptcy Case
Individual Details
Surname HUSSAIN
Forename(s) SAGHWAT
Title MR
Occupation Sales & customer services
Date of Birth 03 April 1974
Last Known Address 3 Sion House
Sion Hill
Wolverley
Kidderminster
DY10 2YY

another


CON ARTIST!

15.06.2009 11:52

Kinde has been conning the Social Services out of hundreds of thousands of pounds! Its a pity the social services are too scared of her legal team to do anything about it! Im sure, knowingly swindling an additional months money from the council is theft to some degree. Unity/principal bill on a 28 day period to the councils yet they pay all their bills monthly meaning that at the end of the year they receive a 13th payment!!!!! YES THEY RECEIVE A WHOLE MONTHS MONEY THROUGH DECEPTION!!! SHUT THEM DOWN. The management is fully aware of this and continue to do this on a regular basis. They are not just cutting corners on the care side, they con the councils on the other side.

You know Who!

You Know Who!
mail e-mail: principalhousingcare@hotmail.co.uk


Con women not business women

31.12.2009 17:46

And so it has come to pass Kindi, the inevitable closure of what was once a very good business aimed at helping the young people, the hostel has closed down and the office is the process of finishing off the last off the few contracts that you have, and all because you are the greediest evilest person on this planet. Once you stole the company from the lovely people who really set it up and really did want to help people, you did not have a chance of keeping it open because you are not a business women, you are a very good con women. Every business you have ever had has been based on the con which is why non of your businesses ( cons ) last very long. You never did know how to run a contract that looked after people you had the same problems with the original Sandwell asylum contact that you have ended up with now you got found out. All you want to do is play the big I am like some self obsessed mad women and take the money. It only took you 2 and a half years but man do you know how to run a company into the ground. I hope and pray that one day you get what is really coming to you, from the authorities as well as all the people who you have conned and stolen from, because of how you have treated these young people and conned your way through life you really need to be put inside. Best wishes for the new year and wishing you all that you should get and should have coming to you.

You really kno who


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