Under its two guises, GMT received at least £12m across a three-year period, almost all of which was for operating unregistered children’s homes for local authorities including Manchester and Tameside.
GMT’s most recent published accounts show directors received dividends totalling more than £300,000 in 2023. During that year, the directors were owner and CEO Emma Mander, her husband Paul Mander, and her cousin Margaret Walls.
Emma Mander declined to comment for this article, but previously told us the 2023 dividends figure was cumulative from prior years and that she had been advised by her accountants that directors should receive dividends rather than salaries.
Mander has also previously said the children who…