• Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed

    Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed
    Shocking figures gathered by the Observer show social care provision is dictated by money, not needNew children’s care homes are being disproportionately placed in cheaper and more deprived parts of England, according to an Observer investigation. .Over the past five years the number of children’s care homes located in areas with the cheapest house sale prices has risen almost three times faster than in the most expensive places. Among the regions with big increases in homes was the

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