UK council placed 10-year-old in illegal children’s home costing £29k a week

"The council paid Great Minds Together (GMT), the company that runs the home, 1.2% of its yearly children’s services budget for the 17-week placement."

GMT

apparently a non-profit...

And before this it was placing immigrants in hotels via booking.com and then during COVID it was charging outrageous amounts of money for one week in a super crappy quarantine hotel.

Someone is making lucrative deals with the government

Isle of Wight council has been charged £29,000 per week for the placement in a semi-detached house leased by the local authority, at which the boy was the only resident.

Remarking on the cost to the public purse, a judge said: “You could send him to Disney[land] Paris for a month and save some money.”

If you're including housing and getting (expensive) on-Disneyland resort housing, it doesn't look like Disneyland Paris will actually let you book a room for an unaccompanied child.