Growing pressure on services as number of children in care doubles

Richard Youle, Local Democracy Reporter The cost of placing looked-after children in residential homes has doubled in just 12 months.

Placements for the most complex children and young people can be more than £10,000 per week and on rare occasions greatly exceed that, the council’s director of social services Darren Mutter said in his first […]

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