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• ‘How can it cost £20k a week to look after one child?’: a care home manager explains

  18-04-2022 19:00
  
  A worker in the sector claims local authorities cost taxpayers money by going for the cheap option firstEnglish councils pay £1m per child for places in private children’s homesCouncil bosses in England are sometimes having to pay seven-figure sums annually in order to house a child with complex needs. Many local authorities currently have at least one child whose care costs £10,000 a week or more, with providers increasing their prices further in recent weeks and blaming the c
  
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• English councils pay £1m per child for places in private children’s homes

  18-04-2022 19:00
  
  Private providers accused of making ‘obscene’ profits out of some of society’s most vulnerable children‘How can it cost £20k a week to look after one child?’Councils in England are paying more than £1m a year for a single place in privately run children’s homes, with operators citing the cost of living crisis as a reason for raising their prices, the Guardian has learned.Private providers have been accused of making “obscene” profits ou
  
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• Lone child refugees suffering neglect in UK hotels, charities say

  18-04-2022 10:21
  
  Charities highlight plight of hundreds of asylum-seeking children placed in hotels by Home OfficeHundreds of unaccompanied children who have arrived in the UK on small boats in the last few months are suffering from hunger and neglect in hotels, charities have said.Charity workers have catalogued a list of concerns about the welfare of lone asylum-seeking children in hotels, with some being forced to shave their heads after scabies outbreaks and to wear prison-style grey tracksuits.Inadequate fo
  
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