Home company fined for boy’s death

A network of children’s homes has been fined £80,000 after a youngster drowned on a trip to a west Norfolk beauty spot when staff ignored ‘No swimming’ signs. Umar Balogun, 16, died at Bawsey Pits, near King’s Lynn, on July 16, 2013, while on an outing with support workers from Castle Lodge care home in Cambridge, where he was living. The staff supervising the trip were all inexperienced and there were large ‘No swimming’ signs all around the waters edge,…