A Children's Rights Director for England consultation of around 1,800 children living away from home or receiving social care support, found widespread concern that current human rights legislation fails to ensure they keep in contact with their families.
They want this rectified in any future human rights laws to ensure that as long as young people and their families want to stay in contact they can "regardless of where the child lives".
Another right that the Human Rights Act and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child fails to specify is the right not to be bullied, say those consulted.
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