In that link it says that Philip Boeckman was a neighbour of Leon Brittan... and it mentions the Hampstead case.
Further, Philip & Erin Boeckman are supporters of a New York children's foster care charity Rising Ground
https://www.risingground.org/wp-content ... t-2017.pdf
José Martin Jara (Counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP.)
Board President
Counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP was founded in 1907 in Philadelphia by Edwin Fox and. Jerome Rothschild. Jerome, the son of Solomon Rothschild and Estelle (Goldsmith) Rothschild.
Rising Ground CEO Discusses Big Child Welfare Merger in New York City Foster Care
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2 ... cies/32318
2018
Two of the larger foster care agencies in New York City announced a merger this summer, in another example of the New York City child welfare industry’s increasing consolidation in response to the plummeting number of city youth in foster care.
The nonprofit Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families will become a subsidiary of Rising Ground, which recently changed its name from Leake and Watts. Together, they will comprise a $130 million, 1,800-employee organization serving tens of thousands of New Yorkers, including nearly 2,000 kids whom either have been removed from their homes by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and placed in foster care due to neglect or abuse allegations, or are at risk of being removed.
It’s high-stakes work that occasionally brings intense scrutiny. National media inundated Rising Ground after noticing that the organization was caring for some of the migrant youth who were separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s short-lived “zero tolerance” border policy. But, according to Alan Mucatel, Rising Ground CEO, the attention did little to slow down a merger process that began in earnest around a year ago.
Meanwhile, the city foster care system is moving toward a major pivot point: Many of the hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with nonprofit service providers will be up for rebidding starting in the middle of 2019...
Leake and Watts Services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leake_and_Watts_Services
Leake and Watts Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit social services agency in New York City that provides services for children and families in the areas of foster care, adoption, special education, Head Start and other related subjects.[1] It has facilities in Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, and in the Bronx and upper Manhattan in New York City. The agency began as the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum in Manhattan..
History
John George Leake (1752–1827) was a New York lawyer who had no children or siblings.[3] He died on June 2, 1827 at his home on Park Row in Manhattan. His estate, which included personal property valued at about $300,000 and real estate worth an additional $86,000,[5] he left to Robert Watts, the son of his best friend John Watts, with the stipulation that Robert Watts change his name to "Robert Leake."[6] Watts made the change, but died a few months later, leaving no will. The Leake fortune would then have passed to his father, John Watts, but considering the circumstances Watts was uncomfortable with receiving the money...
Originally located at Trinity Church,[2] a new building for the orphanage at West 112th Street in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, was completed in 1843, designed by Ithiel Town and constructed by Samuel Thomson in the Greek revival style.[3][4] The site of the orphanage was purchased in 1891 by Bishop Henry Codman Potter for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,[7] and the building was to be torn down. However, the building was preserved as part of the cathedral close, renovated in 2006, and is the oldest building still standing in Morningside Heights.[6]
The Leake & Watts Board of Trustees purchased a 30-acre in Yonkers, New York, in 1888.[8] In 1990, the orphanage opened in Yonkers.[9]
In 2012, a 16-year-old student named Corey Foster died at Leake and Watts while being restrained by the institution's staff after refusing to leave the basketball court. The institute's practices, which include solitary confinement and punitive restraints, have been criticized.[10] However, the Westchester County District Attorney led a three-month investigation into the incidence and concluded that no criminal charges were warranted.
