“Exploitative” companies running children’s homes targeted by the Government for making excessive profits will still find a way to “game” the system, MPs have been told. A leading sector figure
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More than 5,000 children in Northern Ireland are set to spend this Christmas living in temporary accommodation. It has emerged that in November there were 5,378 children in temporary accommodation,
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Barry Keoghan said he has had “a lot of problems with trust” after growing up in the care system. The Dublin-born actor has been outspoken about his childhood, which saw
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A 13-year-old girl has been locked up for 18 months for stabbing her adoptive mother. She was aged 12 when she plunged a kitchen knife into her 47-year-old mother’s arm
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An education minister has admitted there has been an “unacceptable increase” in the number of children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders. These court orders allow a child to be
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Vulnerable young people have been placed in a caravan and an Airbnb in a “stark failure of the children’s social care system” in England, according to a new report. While
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Bridget Phillipson has said the Government will not “hesitate” to cap profits in children’s social care if firms fail to curb their gains, as another MP warned vulnerable children have
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An asylum seeker who died after being run over on a motorway slip road was “upset” that a social worker did not believe he was a child, an inquest has
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A third of the most vulnerable children in the social care system have been placed long distances from their homes, schools and support networks, research has found. The study identified
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An octogenarian former jet fighter pilot has spoken about his new life as a foster carer. RAF veteran Nigel (pictured), whose surname has not been given, said he took up
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