The state can be so negligent to children in the care system that it would risk its children being taken away if it were an actual parent, the Children’s Commissioner
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Thousands of children in care are being repeatedly moved between residential homes or living in unregulated accommodation, reporting “disgusting” and prison-like conditions, a report has found. Some children feel “dumped”
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Crisis in care – how children are being betrayed by the state. Ideally, no child should grow up in an institution. Yet there are 6,570 children currently growing up in
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This analysis contains the 2020 update to the Stability Index: the Children’s Commissioner’s ongoing project measuring levels stability for children in care. This update focuses on the cohort of children
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The care system contains many talented and tireless staff who provide excellent care, but the unfortunate reality is that the system still fails some children. The yearly Stability Index for
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Vulnerable children with complex needs are continuing to “fall through the gaps” due to a chronic shortage of secure care placements, a High Court judge has said. Mr Justice MacDonald
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Councils make it harder for families who rent – or who are not “a perfect ethnic match” – to adopt, leaving children being “bounced around the system” waiting for a
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Thousands of care leavers in England are unable to access education, work or to keep in touch with others because they lack internet connectivity, a group of youth charities have
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An adopted teenager duped his autistic brother into accessing material about so-called Islamic State on the dark web and then turned him in to police, causing the family home to
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A quarter of adopted children are diagnosed with or suspected of having a preventable form of brain damage caused by their birth mothers drinking alcohol during pregnancy, a report has
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