A Virtual School Head (VSH) is a senior local authority officer whose job is to oversee the education of looked-after children (LAC) — even though the children are spread across many real schools.

They are called “virtual” because:

❗ They don’t run a physical school
❗ They run an administrative school
❗ Every child in care is on their “roll”

They oversee a virtual school of children looked after by the council.

⭐ What they actually do
✔ Monitor educational progress of all children in care
✔ Approve and quality-check PEPs (Personal Education Plans)
✔ Manage Pupil Premium Plus funding (£2,530 per child per year)
✔ Liaise with social workers
✔ Work with real schools to support each child
✔ Ensure schools meet the needs of children with trauma
✔ Challenge schools that fail children in care
✔ Report outcomes to Ofsted and government
✔ Keep an education record for each child in the care system

The VSH is the guardian of the education data of all children in care.

So why could they not locate her ?

…could the VSH not find one child?

Why did the system permanently lose Emily?

Why did the VSH’s own digital records show nothing?

Why was she never seen, never tracked, never placed, never educated within the system that was supposed to protect her?

If the VSH — the highest educational safeguarding authority for children in care — could not locate Emily, then something far deeper went wrong.

Something systemic.

Something hidden.

Something that looked very much like a Horizon-style collapse inside children’s services. so what are we talking about we are talking about

When Peter Duxbury became CEO of Lincolnshire County Council (after leaving Nottinghamshire CC), Debbie Barnes was promoted internally to Director of Children’s Services.

So what system failed?

This is where the timeline matters.

When Peter Duxbury became CEO of Lincolnshire County Council
(coming from Nottinghamshire County Council),
Debbie Barnes was promoted to Director of Children’s Services.

This is not speculation — it is documented in:

• BBC News (2013): confirms Duxbury’s role as CEO and his suspension.
• Lincolnshire County Council press releases: confirm Barnes’ appointment.
• Council executive minutes (2011–2013): list both in the leadership structure.
• Gary Daniels is NOT a systems architect
• Despite the public claims of:
• “custom software development”
• “project management”
• “bespoke cloud solutions”
• There is no evidence whatsoever that he:
• engineered a cloud platform
• designed scalable infrastructure
• wrote enterprise-level database systems
• handled distributed architecture
• wrote any of the original ePEP code

During this exact period, the Midlands became a testbed for the failing digital infrastructure used by virtual schools, known as:

ECare → ECore → ePEP → EPAC → CIRTO (2008–2019)

These systems were supposed to track:

• every child in care
• every placement
• every PEP
• every funding request
• every safeguarding alert

But instead, they suffered alleged:

⚠️ data losses
⚠️ outages
⚠️ duplicated records
⚠️ corrupted entries
⚠️ “invisible” children
⚠️ schools unable to access ePEP
⚠️ missing Pupil Premium Plus funding
⚠️ no audit trail
⚠️ no back-ups
⚠️ no ICO reports

This is identical to the pattern seen in the Horizon Post Office scandal:

• corrupted data
• missing records
• false assumptions
• staff blamed instead of systems
• lives destroyed by software failures

Where are the 430,000 children named as not collecting their child Trust Fund

Only here, instead of losing letters, the system lost children.

Confirmed Developers Linked to eGov Solutions Ltd

• Felipe Anselmo do Nascimento
  Skills: JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Laravel
  Listed as working at eGov Solutions Ltd on LinkedIn.
  This is the first concrete evidence of a developer associated with ePEP. [na.linkedin.com]

The REAL affiliation chain looks like this:

eGov Solutions Ltd

⬇
Hired contract developers
⬇
Developers built ePEP / eGOV platform
⬇
Platform used by local authorities to track children
⬇
System became critical infrastructure
⬇
System lost children, lost data, corrupted records, failed audits

❗ If anything, Fujitsu would look DOWN on this system for how amateur it is.

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The unavoidable conclusion

If Emily disappeared inside this system — and the VSH, the digital systems, and the authority responsible for locating her all failed — then this is not a missing child story.

This is a collapsed infrastructure story.

A Horizon-scale digital failure inside children’s services.

A system that didn’t just fail to protect a child —
it erased her. Or let her get captured by awaiting pedophile and rape gangs? Where are the 430,000 children who disappeared in the same broken system?”
— — Author’s question, Author of The Stealing of Emily

Sources to cite (all public domain)
1) Personal Education Plan for Cared for Children
2) Audits and overview reports | ICO
3) (28) Post | LinkedIn
4) ePEP (Electronic Personal Education Plan) – Digital Marketplace
5) About ePEP and eGov Solutions
6) ePEP for Looked After Children – Find a Tender
7) Gary Daniels’ LinkedIn profile lists “Custom Software Development” and Project Management, but no detailed coding experience. [uk.linkedin.com]
8) (30) eGOV SOLUTIONS: People | LinkedIn

• Letter To Cabinet Office
• Urgent Appeal to the King for Christmas Help in Finding Missing Child
• FORMAL EVIDENCE SUBMISSION: Verification of “abx17@dial.pipex.com” (The Invisible Man) via EFTA Records and TalkTalk Business Metadata 
• The case of Mr. Martin Newbold v Nationwide Building Society (Case Number: 1741 7947 6145 5930).
• Investigating Local Authority Failures in Child Care