Before Care, a survey of 50 children from 24 local authorities who had recently entered the care system, raises concerns about how unprepared some children are when coming into care.
One child said: "Someone could have talked to me and told me what was happening." While another said: "Someone I knew could have been allowed to come rather than escorts picking me up in the night, driving me out of London to someone’s house I knew nothing about."
But the report also reveals that once the children were placed in care, 38 said their life was generally better. One child said: "My life has been a fair amount happier and quite a lot more settled since."
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