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Children going into care
02 Nov 2010
The experiences of children placed into care are revealed in a new report today. Among the experiences are many children not knowing that they are going into care until it actually happens and then having no choice about where they are going to live. Of 28 children who did not know they were going into care, 18 were emergency admissions.
Before care, the latest report by Children’s Rights Director for England, Dr Roger Morgan, is a small but significant survey of 50 children, from different authorities across the country, who recently entered the care system. It provides first hand accounts of children’s experiences before entering care and raises concerns about how ill informed and unprepared some children are when they come into care. As one child expressed, 'someone could have talked to me and told me what was happening' and another said '… not just dump in a placement, pass over my bags and some forms and leave me with strangers!!'.
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Children going into care
02 Nov 2010
The experiences of children placed into care are revealed in a new report.
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