• Revealed: councils send teens in care to live in squalid B&Bs and bedsits

    Observer investigation shows growing numbers of vulnerable young people are being placed in ‘risky’ homesMore and more children as young as 16 are being housed alone in bed and breakfast rooms, bedsits and even caravans by local authorities that are struggling to cope with rising numbers of youngsters in the care system.An investigation by the Observer and BBC 5 Live has established that there has been a 28% increase in the number of under-18s placed by councils in so-called independ

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