Sources said Bryn Melyn, Educare, Hillcrest, the Continuum Group,Sedgemoor and New Horizons held a confidential meeting to discusssetting up their own group. It is understood that the debate washeated.
Some of the providers argued that a grouping separate from theIndependent Children's Homes Association or National Centre forExcellence in Residential Childcare would be extremely unhelpful.
But Steve Parkin, chief executive of the newly formed Continuum Group,denied the rumours. He said: "They are fictitious. There is not going tobe a group formed outside of the Independent Children's HomesAssociation."
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