It has been an eventful year for Ann Coffey. The MP for Stockport has moved party - in February, she left Labour over the leadership's stance on a number of policies to join the Independent Group for Change; and through the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for runaway and missing children, which she chairs, has published reports into children going missing from residential care and the use by councils of unregulated children's homes. Her interest in the care system has been shaped by her 20-year social work career before politics.
You have raised concerns about the number of children placed in out-of-area care placements. Why do you think this is a major problem?
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