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Children Now
31 May 2005
- Children have a right to privacy. People have a right to know what is going on in their community. Those principles clashed over the whereabouts of children's homes in the West Midlands. The result was angry protests and a legal challenge. The judge ruled in favour of children's rights to privacy.
Children's home operator Green Corns typically places a single child with two adult carers in an ordinary house. It sought a high court ruling to protect their privacy after the Express & Star identified four of its care homes.
Green Corns argued that printing the addresses increased...