Social work news

• Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England

  13-04-2024 17:36
  
  Observer investigation finds that private companies made £105m despite not being registered with OfstedHundreds of extremely vulnerable school-age children in England are being sent to illegal, unregulated homes every year because of a chronic shortage of places in secure local authority units.An Observer investigation has established that councils placed 706 children, the majority of them under the age of 16, in their care in homes that were not registered with Ofsted, the children’
  
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• ‘Nowhere else is available’: how vulnerable children end up in illegal care homes

  13-04-2024 17:36
  
  Harrowing court video hearings reveal plight of those unable to find a place in secure, registered accommodationThe judge sitting in the family division of the high court can barely hide his concern and frustration as he listens to a barrister acting for Kent county council update him about the plight of a vulnerable 14-year-old girl in an unregistered, illegal children’s home run by a private company.She is at risk of child sexual exploitation. In the past, she has run away, taken hard dr
  
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