Did Estyn And Care Inspectorate Wales Get It Wrong? Cyngor Gwynedd Council...

In 2017, Ysgol Friars underwent an inspection by Estyn - 
https://estyn.gov.wales/system/files/2020-08/Ysgol%2520Friars.pdf

In June, 2023, Estyn undertook an inspection of education services in cyngor Gwynedd -
https://www.estyn.gov.wales/system/files/?file=2023-09/Inspection%20report%20Cyngor%20Gwynedd%202023_0.pdf

 

It's not my fault...  
But cyngor Gwynedd did not have an effective digital strategy at this time. 
Geraint Owen, the former corporate director, was responsible for the strategy and had to defend himself at one council meeting for not creating the strategy...!

Estyn's analysis of the safeguarding arrangements within cyngor Gwynedd was completely wrong...

How did Estyn get it so wrong..? 
Questions remain as to Estyn's diligence and methods of scrutiny.

Some clues can be found in another report dated September 2023, co-produced by Estyn, Health Inspectorate Wales and Care Inspectorate Wales after the death of Child T, from Bridgend.
Rapid review of child protection arrangements


The full report can be found here - 
https://www.careinspectorate.wales/sites/default/files/2023-09/230928-Rapid-review-of-child-protection-arangements-en.pdf

On page 15 -


The effective child protection model incorporating the Risk Model, utilised by cyngor Gwynedd, was created by Dafydd Paul, the senior safeguarding and quality officer for the council.

In March, 2022, a project evaluation of the ECP was undertaken by Bruce Thornton,  a consultant and trainer in social care. His report can be found here - 
https://www.effectivechildprotection.wales/sites/default/files/Effective%20Child%20Protection%20Project%20Evaluation_%20Full%20Report.pdf

Thornton writes - 
I was asked to examine whether child protection in Gwynedd is more effective as a consequence of adopting the Effective Child Protection model?
The unequivocal answer to that question is ‘Yes’

Obviously not...

The model focuses on parents needing to change behaviours but appears not to mention the risk of abuse from those in a position of trust/authority. The last child abuse scandal in this area of north Wales involved those in a position of trust/authority over children in care... 

Paul is believed to be 'absent from work' since the Spring of 2025, as is Marian Parry Hughes, the head of children's SS department. Cyngor Gwynedd refuse to confirm the identities of the officers until investigations commissioned by the HR department are complete.
When will that be..?

Have the investigations looked at the role of the senior officer within the legal department who was present at the safeguarding meeting in 2019 re Foden or is it focused solely on the officers within the children's department?  

A reminder that Foden physically abused boys..

It gets worse...
Estyn and Care Inspectorate Wales held a Joint inspection with a focus on safeguarding in Gwynedd Council in November, 2025. That report can be found here - 
https://estyn.gov.wales/app/uploads/2025/12/Safeguarding-inspection-report-Gwynedd-Council-2026.pdf

On page 11 - 



The 'effective child protection' model created by Dafydd Paul - in 2019 - appears to have failed in Gwynedd. 
Estyn and Care Inspectorate Wales chose not to name Paul, simply referring to him as a 'senior leader in the children and families department. For why?

Perhaps this report should be removed out of respect for the children and families involved?

As an evidence base, the investigators included - 
• A meeting with members of the education and social care scrutiny boards.
• Meetings with practitioners, staff, officers, managers, senior officers, elected members, leaders of scrutiny committees (a total of 20 meetings)
• Scrutiny of sample files (24 child safeguarding cases under Section 3 and Section 5 of the Wales Safeguarding Procedures for the period between 1/09/24 and 30/09/25)

Shifting blame...
Sounds great the scrutinising of sample files, some presumably written by the same officers now absent from work? BUT do they give a true representation of the facts? Some officers have history...

Where is the public inquiry?
At the extraordinary council meeting, in February, Dafydd Gibbard stated that he had had a response from the government and that 'we need to share that'.
Gibbard did not share the response at the meeting - so is there to be a public inquiry?

Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council... 

 

 

Low Hanging Fruit - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...

Surrey County Council has been accused of carrying out "illegal" and "immoral" care assessments of vulnerable adults, and excluding their families, in a bid to save money by reducing their support.

Learning disabled adults face 'dangerous' cuts to care after 'illegal assessments', claim families.
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-12/learning-disabled-adults-face-care-cuts-after-unsafe-assessments-say-families

In response, Sinead Mooney, Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care said - 
We’ve just approved an adult social care budget increase of more than £27million.

 
Cyngor Gwynedd have been faking assessments on vulnerable adults and children - for years.
An Ombudsman for Wales report from 2018 -
https://www.lukeclements.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ombudsman-Gwynedd-Council-report-201700388.pdf 

 Using a person's disability against them..?

 

Low hanging fruit..? 

Untrained social workers sent out to remove services from vulnerable people by untrained senior social workers - simply to save money. 
The PSOW was so enraged it included the case in its hall of shame casebook on human rights -
https://www.ombudsman.wales/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/104483-Equality-and-Human-Rights-Casebook_Eng_v03.pdf

The then cabinet member for adults, Dafydd Meurig, should have presented this case to the care scrutiny committee who could have called for an investigation/review of the department.
Meurig did not...

Ombudsman recommendations...
This case is even more appalling when it was discovered that Gwynedd council had lied to the PSOW by saying that specific staff training had taken place when it had not.

Gwynedd council target children too...
A social worker undertook an assessment on a disabled, autistic child but did not tick the disabled box. This excluded the child from support by Derwen, cyngor Gwynedd's service for disabled children.
An Ombudsman's investigation found that the assessment was 'predetermined to fail'...

On the recommendation from the Ombudsman, another assessment was undertaken...
This time a social worker from the 16+ team, Sharon Keys and Barry John Thomas, a social worker/complaints officer from Derwen assessed the child.

Both social workers said they knew nothing about the PSOW ordering the re-assessment and declined the report when offered it. They said they weren't looking back, but 'taking it from today'.

Incredibly, the social workers said they would not be considering the child's autism for the purpose of the assessment... 

Parent bashing... 
It was no surprise that the second assessment also denied support for the child.
Instead, the social workers used the 'assessment' to parent blame.

Complaint shut down...
A stage 2 complaint was raised against the social workers assessment.
It was not allowed to progress and was eventually timed out.

Protect the senior officers...?
Emails indicate that the investigating officer and the independent person may have not been as 'independent' as they should.The emails also suggest that Gwynedd's senior complaints manager was more active in the 'independent' investigation than perhaps he should have been. 

Both Surrey and Gwynedd councils have been caught faking assessments on vulnerable people.
Whilst Surrey are unlikely to be repeat offenders - Gwynedd council certainly are...

Something is so very wrong within Gwynedd council...

 

 

 

The Culture And Mindset Within Gwynedd Council...

Five years ago, Audit Wales flagged the culture within cyngor Gwynedd as 'destructive'.

 
https://www.wao.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/ffordd_gwynedd.pdf

At the recent extraordinary meeting of the full council, councillors Nia Jeffreys and Olaf Cai Larsen spoke of staff feeling safe to challenge. 
Irony indeed - speaking to a full council meeting where councillors had been 'advised' not to challenge...

The webcast of the meeting can be found here - 
https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1063308

Larsen, the chair of the Plaid Cymru constituency party and Jeffreys may have missed the council's recent audit on whistleblowing. Staff do not feel safe...

It is not just staff...
People who do raise concerns have been smeared by senior officers and ignored by councillors.  

Actions not words...
Safeguarding, scrutiny and culture are now buzzwords for council officers/members since Neil Foden's arrest in 2023.
The reality is somewhat different...

On April 11th, 2024, the children's department finally released their annual complaints handling report from 2022/23 to the care scrutiny committee. 

Standards...
It was the first time the SS annual complaints reports had come before a scrutiny committee since 2019, after which a complaint was made against a senior officer for misleading the committee. The same officer had refused to answer questions of the care scrutiny committee at a previous meeting. 

The report can be found in the agenda pack here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g4975/Public%20reports%20pack%2011th-Apr-2024%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10

Page 36 mentions a historic complaint –

The Senior Manager discussed fully with the Senior Complaints Officer as ten years had passed. The social worker did not work here anymore, therefore we would need to rely on records only to investigate the complaint...

Who is the senior manager?
It is believed that Dafydd Paul was the senior complaints officer at this time. 
Did the legal department give advice to the officer's on the matter..?

The Ffordd Gwynedd way...
The PSOW can investigate historic complaints. 
Treating the complaint in this way may have shut down the pathway to the Ombudsman for Wales. 

There was another historic complaint on page 37 – 

The cabinet member for children was silent on the historic complaints and not one councillor of the committee raised concerns. The report was voted through by the committee...
Shameful...

 

The presentation of the 2022/23 report for scrutiny had been long delayed. 
The report - with the historic complaints of safeguarding failures - was finally released to the committee after Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) had completed its review of the council.
 

Would the CIW's report been different if they had known of the historic complaints of failure to listen and safeguard these two individuals ?

  

Playing catch up..?
5 months later, on the 26th, September, 2024, the SS departments presented their annual complaints handling reports for 2023/24 to the care scrutiny committee. The agenda pack for the meeting and the reports can be found here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/documents/g5188/Public%20reports%20pack%2026th-Sep-2024%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10

The 2023/24 complaints report credits Marian Parry Hughes – Head of Children and Supporting Families Department and Aled Davies – Head of Adults, Health and Well-being Department as the authors.

During the meeting, Dafydd Paul, acting as the senior complaints officer and presenting the report gave the impression that he was the author of the children's report. 
 

Darvo...
Paul, did not update the committee on the investigation that had taken place of the historic abuse from 2013/14 nor did any councillor ask...

Instead, Paul gave a diatribe on how hard it was for the customer care team dealing with 'difficult or tiresome complainants...'

 

Neil Foden used the same tactic of denial and blaming others...

The committee also scrutinised this complaint from the adult's learning disability team - 

Dodgy..?
What was the 'relationship' between the support worker and the service user?
No proper explanation was given nor asked for by councillors.
Councillors passed the reports anyway...

 

3 months later, on the 17th, December, 2024, a cabinet meeting was held.

The 'Complaints and Service Improvement Report Quarter 1-2 2024/25' was presented.
The report can be found in the agenda pack here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/documents/g5260/Public%20reports%20pack%2017th-Dec-2024%2013.00%20The%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10

The contact officer for the report is Ian Jones, Head of Corporate Services.

 

For some reason, a complaint from the children's SS department was included.
Neither Jones nor Menna Trenholme, the cabinet member for children, explained why the report was being presented to the cabinet rather than the care scrutiny committee...

'difficult and tiresome complainants...?
So a complaint to the children's service was brought to the attention of the monitoring officer who had to remind the children and adult's SS customer care/complaint officers of the law when dealing with complaints...

 

Nolan Principles...

The officer's are well aware of the law, procedures and guidelines.
It is a choice to ignore them and infringe on the rights of the residents of Gwynedd.

 

Jones, also included two complaints concerning the education department.
Again, these complaints were not presented to the education/economy scrutiny committee... 

The complaints in question are on page 53 and 54 of Jones' report.
Three serious complaints - one a safeguarding issue -  avoiding proper scrutiny.

Cabinet members should have challenged Jones' report. 
Instead, cabinet members voted to accept the report without real discussion...

 

All this has taken place after Neil Foden's arrest...
Many councillors continue to turn a blind eye...

 

Trauma informed...
For many families, seeking advice and support from Gwynedd's SS departments is traumatic - 
SYSTEMS GENERATED TRAUMA 
How disabled children and their families are traumatised by dysfunctional public services when they ask for support - 
https://cerebra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Systems-Generated-Trauma-Report-web.pdf

  

The Cerebra report is authored by Professor Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello.
They give insight to the damage caused to children and families by the very departments that were created to support them...

 

Culture...
Clements is a Professor of Law at Leeds University and has written an article on Gwynedd council - 
‘Omg … will it never end’
https://www.lukeclements.co.uk/omg-will-it-never-end-2/

 

This was in respect of an Ombudsman's investigation under the last administration. He warns - 
 

Grooming...? 
Some councillors and senior officer's have mentioned they were also groomed by Foden.
This is disingenuous...

Cabinet members through to scrutiny committee members – most complicit in the toxic culture that has been allowed to continue to cover for incompetence and protect reputational damage - for years. 

 

A public inquiry is needed.
Has the Children's Commissioner for Wales, Rocío Cifuentes, been approached?

 

When will the monitoring officer give an account of the 'advice' given by a senior officer within the legal department to the safeguarding meeting re Neil Foden in 2019? 

 

Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council... 

 

 

 

 

Extraordinary - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...

An extraordinary meeting of cyngor Gwynedd's full council was held on the 5th February, 2026.

Gwynedd councillors were shut down even before the meeting began when the monitoring officer, Iwan Evans, messaged them to 'advise' what could and could not be asked.

Was Evans protecting the legal officer who advised senior officers in 2019?
From the Jan Pickles review - 

LA1 Head C&FS requested a meeting on a ‘Mater Diogelu Brys- Cyfrinachol’ (Urgent
Safeguarding matter - Confidential) via email to LA1 C&FS Senior Manager LADO.

On 15 April 2019 a meeting of four senior LA1 officers from LA1 Ed, LA1 C&FS and LA1 Legal departments was held to consider the information reported by Core SMT 1 to LA1 Head of Education 1. 

Any complaint against the monitoring officer is to be dealt with by Dafydd Gibbard.

This was not a meeting that the chair of the council, Ioan Thomas, would have enjoyed. 
Some of his decision making was poor and even a simple question such as who appointed Neil Foden as superhead to run Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle as well as Ysgol Friars was not answered...

It is understood that the appointment of a headmaster is the decision of the school's governors - 
https://www.ysgoldyffrynnantlle.cymru/en/governors/whos-who 

The webcast of the meeting can be found here - 
https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1063308
As is often the case, the translated feed is not yet working...

Something is so very wrong within Gwynedd council... 

 

Did Estyn and Care Inspectorate Wales actually read this piece of work..?

Stephen Wood, manager of the Gwynedd and Ynys Mon Youth Justice Service presented his report to the care scrutiny committee on the 29th, January, 2026.

The webcast of the meeting can be found here - 
https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1060285

There appears to be a change of culture within the service that coincides with a big drop in the numbers of young people being criminalised through the courts. 

Wood informed that the short, sharp shock tactics do not work.

On youth offender's...
Asked what the big problems were, he stated, violence and adults taking drugs.
He mentioned that middle class children also commit crime - but they don't get caught.
Hotspots include Caernarfon, Bangor, Holyhead, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llangefni.
Cocaine was also raised as a problem locally.

It takes a village to raise a child...
Over the years, local schools have closed and super schools built instead. Many village's then lost their local shop, their bakery closed and then the pub. Families moved and communities were lost.

Then the council shut the youth clubs and sacked the youth workers.
Audit Wales warned against this but the messenger was derided by councillors at a full council meeting on the 3rd October, 2019. 

Schools have failed the children, too.
Pre-pandemic the policy was to include children - now figures show more children are excluded.
Idle hands and all that...

Does the ''Keeping Families Together' strategy co-authored by the interim head of the children's department, Sharron Williams Carter, show a change of culture?
One can hope...

Predetermined to fail..?
The work of the 16+ team  was discussed. 
This service has had its issues, too. 
From social workers poor note taking and a team leader that has been accused of faking assessments and setting up children and families to fail. 

Estyn have just completed a joint inspection with a focus on safeguarding in Gwynedd Council -
The purpose of this inspection was to evaluate developments in Gwynedd Local Authority’s safeguarding arrangements since September 2023.
Joint inspection with a focus on safeguarding in Gwynedd Council by Estyn, His Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education, and Training in Wales, and Care Inspectorate Wales.
Date of inspection: November 2025 

The inspection team considered one key question:-
 How well are children protected from individuals who may pose a risk to them and when concerns are raised about those who care for them or work with them, either in a paid or voluntary role?

This question is not answered...
Estyn and the CIW do mention this -

 

 

 

Did Estyn and Care Inspectorate Wales actually read this piece of work?
https://www.effectivechildprotection.wales/en/

Was this presented to Estyn and CIW as new and innovative?
The 'effective child protection' model was created by Dafydd Paul - many years ago. 
It does not answer the investigation teams key question nor deal with abuse by those in a position of trust... 

Now where is the report of the fostering team..?

Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council...

Where Are The Children? - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...

Cyngor Gwynedd's care scrutiny committee meet on Thursday, 29th January, 2026. The agenda pack for the meeting can be found here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=394&MId=5671

The meeting will discuss the 'Keeping Families Together Strategy' co-authored by Sharron Williams Carter, the interim head of children's SS and Gwenan Medi Hughes, Sue Layton and Caren Brown. 

A report from the Youth Justice Service, authored by Stephen Wood, will be presented.

Eighteen months ago, senior officers of the YJS were criticised by HM Inspectorate of Probation. The link to their report shows 'Page not found' but an archived version can be found here -
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20240312162338/https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/08/An-inspection-of-youth-justice-services-in-Gwynedd-Ynys-Mon.pdf

An excerpt from the HMIP report –
Assessment work to identify and analyse risks to the child’s safety and wellbeing was much weaker. Practitioners, while generally accessing information well, did not use the information from other agencies regularly. We identified failures to appropriately consider or respond to exploitation concerns and suggest this is an area that requires additional training, understanding and focus by the service. Inspectors did not agree with almost half of the risk classifications made by case managers. 

In June, 2024, the same time as the HMIP report, cyngor Gwynedd's cabinet met to discuss the 'Performance Report for Children and Supporting Families' presented by the former cabinet member for children, Elin Walker-Jones. 
Main discussion points were the Small Group Homes scheme and the Autism Plan. The agenda pack can be found here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g5221/Public%20reports%20pack%2011th-Jun-2024%2013.00%20The%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10

Aled Gibbard answered questions of the cabinet members.
Councillors asked what happens when these children reach the age of 18. 
Gibbard replied that the council no longer have a responsibilty for these children.

In his latest report ,16+ Team (Leaving Care), the interim head of SS now states -
While the young person is under 18, they are treated as children in care.
When they turn eighteen they become Care Leavers and are the responsibility of the local authority until they are 25 years old.

If true, this change of policy and alignment with law is to be welcomed but exactly what support will be given to care leavers?

In recent meetings, the council has scrutinised safeguarding practices and repeatedly emphasised the importance of listening to the child’s voice. There have been assurances that this will be the number one priority through not only the SS departments, but all council departments

Is it not of concern then that the 16+ service report states -  
5. Consultation
5.1 We have not consulted with service users for the purposes of this report.

It is not just the' voice of the child' that is missing...
But the child...
They can not all be refugees and even if they were - where are they?

Gibbard also relies on the Population Needs Assessment.
Some people remember the meeting of the care scrutiny committee on the 3rd February, 2022, which accepted the document.
Gwynedd's contribution to the North Wales Population Needs Assessment was ...incomplete.

Dafydd Meurig presented the document and concerns were raised that few people were responding with requests for information – surveys etc and that not all data was positive to the services...
The document along with the agenda pack for 2022 can be found here - 
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/documents/g4539/Public%20reports%20pack%2003rd-Feb-2022%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10

If officers were not blaming residents they were blaming covid.
The data is worthless but councillors thanked the officers for their honesty and voted to accept the document anyway. Of the councillors present - 

Councillor Eryl Jones-Williams (Chair)
Councillor Angela Russell (Vice-chair)
Councillors: Menna Baines, Beca Brown, Anwen J. Davies, Alan Jones Evans, Richard Medwyn Hughes, Gareth Tudor Morris Jones, Linda Ann Jones, Olaf Cai Larsen, Linda Morgan, Beth Lawton and Dafydd Owen.

Only one voted against with another abstaining. The rest voted it through. 

Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council... 

HR Investigation Of Senior Officers Has Already Cost 30K - Cyngor Gwynedd.

Dafydd Gibbard, CEO of cyngor Gwynedd has authored the council's 'Response Plan to the Our Bravery Brought Justice Report'. He writes - 
The Committee is asked to scrutinise the revamped Response Plan before it is submitted to Cabinet for formal adoption.

This January, his report has gone before the Care scrutiny committee, the Education/Economy scrutiny committee and the Governance and Audit committee. His report can be found here -
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g5668/Public%20reports%20pack%2013th-Jan-2026%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10

The 'extended' Child Practice Review, by Jan Pickles, looked at events from 2017.
From a BBC article dated April, 2025 –
She looked at 2019 because, during Foden’s trial, the council’s former head of education Garem Jackson said that was when he made a senior safeguarding officer aware of concerns about Foden’s “close relationship” with some teen girls.
He said he was advised there was no need for a formal investigation as no official complaint had been made.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2njvjwzko

So who advised Jackson?
In this respect, Jan Pickles is vague...
From page 13 of her review - 

LA1 Head C&FS requested a meeting on a ‘Mater Diogelu Brys- Cyfrinachol’ (Urgent
Safeguarding matter - Confidential) via email to LA1 C&FS Senior Manager LADO.

On 15 April 2019 a meeting of four senior LA1 officers from LA1 Ed, LA1 C&FS and LA1 Legal departments was held to consider the information reported by Core SMT 1 to LA1 Head of Education 1. 

No formal minutes were made of this meeting however the Reviewers have seen transcripts of handwritten notes taken contemporaneously by two attendees. 
Core SMT 1 was not invited to the meeting to give further nformation. 
The meeting was deemed not to be a child protection meeting and was instead regarded as being for the consideration of a ‘professional issue’.

So a senior officer from the legal department was present...
Was this the monitoring officer?

Did any senior officer apart from Jackson give evidence at Neil Foden's trial?
Did the chair and vice chair of the school governors, both serving police officers, give evidence?
If not - why not..?

The Woods report will give more detail of the safeguarding failures. 
After HR completes it's investigations will the report be published? 
There were calls from councillors for the report to be released, even as an exempted document, this was flatly refused by the monitoring officer. Gibbard informed that the HR investigations had already cost £30,000...

The Jan Pickles review can be found here - 
https://www.northwalessafeguardingboard.wales/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/30.10.25-FINAL-ENGLISH-CPR-REPORT-_.pdf

A reminder that the children abused by Foden were receiving 'care' from the council...
Did Social workers of the 16+ team and the Youth Justice Service also fail the children? 
Both departments are to have their recent work scrutinised at a care scrutiny committee on the 29th, January.

In other news, Nia Jeffreys, the leader of the council, challenged the minutes of the North Wales Corporate Joint Committee. She explained that she was against excluding the public and press from a previous meeting and had asked that her vote against be recorded. 
The council leader's vote was not recorded...

Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council... 

Shocking - Cyngor Gwynedd Council And Private Landlords...

Last September, a cyngor Gwynedd enforcement officer allowed a private landlord to personally undertake the task of installing an electrical consumer unit into his rented property. 

The landlord is not a qualified electrician but the enforcement officer, Alwyn Trenholme, assured the tenant that the work would be checked and certified by a registered electrician within a week...

More on this here - 
https://gwyneddsfailingcouncil.blogspot.com/2025/09/unqualified-installation-of-consumer.html

On January 13th, four months later, a qualified electrician inspected the landlord's work.
The property failed yet again...

The MCB and MCP were both faulty and needed replacing -  

Also, the immersion heater for hot water was found not to be earthed...