The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Exclusive: UK teenagers placed in temporary housing until they are adults as there are fewer obligations to support them if they are not care leavers Councils are treating teenagers like homeless adults and placing them in unsuitable temporary housing rather than taking them into care, new research has shown. Local authorities are waiting out the clock when assessing vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds until they can be classed as adults.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Part one of NCCPRs news and commentary year in review for 2024 Tomorrow: Part two looks at some of 2024s finest journalism exploring wrongful removal and other harms to children caused by our current system of family policing. Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Stories about children murdered or tortured in their own homes stampeded us into building a gigantic system that destroys children in the name of saving them.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Hardly anyone hears about CHC payments, where the NHS covers all the costs of care, without having done a lot of digging and searching, writes Dr Michael Duxbury This isnt just happening with support for children with special educational needs and disabilities ( 100m spent in England on failed efforts to block childrens Send support, 22 December ). If you are severely incapacitated physically and/or mentally, thus requiring 24-hour care, you should be highly eligible for continuing healthcare (C

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