The orders are mostly used in cases where secure children’s home or mental health in-patient places cannot be found, and they are instead deprived of their liberty in unregulated placements.
But Nagalro, the professional association for children’s guardians, family court advisers and independent social workers, wants to ensure a child's liberty is only curtailed where necessary in “safe and secure therapeutic residential establishments”.
It has written to the secretaries of state for justice, education and health and social care urging them to work together to ensure their use in unregulated places is stamped out.
Their open letter warns ministers the children involved in orders “often have multiple needs, including mental health, behavioural and emotional problems and many will have experienced abuse, neglect and trauma”.
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