[3] Its report, published in 2020 after a two-year investigation, described a "catalogue of serious failings" at the school and said that "This is one of the worst examples we have uncovered of poor governance and oversight having a direct impact on vulnerable people".

[3][10][11] The Charity Commission for England and Wales made a two-year inquiry, starting in March 2018, into the residential school after allegations of sexually abusive practice.

[3] The Commission's report found that the institution had exposed vulnerable children to harm and said that it was "one of the worst examples" it had ever uncovered.

[4] It also said that the RNIB-run school's failings had a serious impact on vulnerable people and recorded several cases of distress and harm to young disabled children.

Moreover, the inquiry found a "disproportionately high number of basic medication errors" with one epileptic child suffering an increase in seizures.