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• ‘Providers can charge what they want’: how Merseyside council paid £50k a week to house vulnerable child

  28-08-2022 10:48
  
  Head of children’s services says cash-strapped authority had no choice but to pay up to provide careCouncil pay £1m a year to house child in private care homeCllr Margaret Harvey, the cabinet member for children’s services in Knowsley, Merseyside, said she reacted with “absolute horror” when told the local authority was going to have to pay almost £50,000 a week for one child’s placement in earlier this year.But the council had no choice, she insisted. I
  
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• Councils in England and Wales pay £1m a year to house child in private care home

  28-08-2022 10:48
  
  Exclusive: Concerns raised as cost of providing specialist care for vulnerable children soars‘Providers charge what they want’: how one council was forced to pay £50k a weekMore than 20 councils in England and Wales have paid the equivalent of £1m a year or more to place a single child in a private children’s home as the cost of specialised care soars, data released to the Guardian shows.The body representing children’s services directors in England urged the
  
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