Wow, if something like this happened in the mainland Europe, probably many heads would fall, up to the ministerial level. For the establishment in good ol’ England it’s just another day.
Did you hear about the Dutch childcare benefits scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...) yet? That one affected about 28’000 parents with 70’000 children and, due to the illegal separation of children from their parents this resulted in, is at the crimes-against-humanity level.