
The commission, made up of sector leaders and experts in children’s rights, released its first report Out of Harm's Way: A new care system to protect vulnerable teenagers at risk of exploitation and crime last month.
CYP Now has picked out five key lessons the sector can take from the report:
1) An ‘ageing’ care population
Teenagers are now the largest and fastest growing age cohort of children in care, the report states, with the number of 10-to 17-year-olds involved in care proceedings rising by 95 per cent between 2011/2012 and 2019/2020.
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