Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield said the accommodation should be illegal for teenage care leavers
It added: “Provision which is not appropriately secure, isolates young people and is located such that a young person cannot access local services such as education and health, is very unlikely to be able to meet the quality standards.”It is one of the proposed reforms – designed to improve the standard of accommodation used by children in care and care leavers – that are currently under consultation.
A growing number of children are being left in different types of unregulated accommodation, ranging from bedsits to boats, with little support, because there is a national shortage of places at children’s homes., said some of the accommodation is well known to criminals who target young people in order to exploit them.“Anyone who has any contact with vulnerable 16 or 17 year olds will know that it's completely inadequate,” she said.
“We know that they can be placed a long way from home and moved very often, which breaks down any kind of relationship or support network."We are putting them somewhere where they don’t have care and don’t have support to finish school.” She added: “We call them looked after children and we should look after them, even when they're 16 or 17 years old, because otherwise what's the point of putting them into care?”
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