The findings come as part of a set of reports published by Anne Longfield into residential children’s care, with a focus on how it the system is supporting the most vulnerable young people, including victims of criminal and sexual exploitation.
One of the reports, the children who no-one knows what to do with, which involved three years research into children’s homes found that young people in residential care are blighted by multiple placements, lack of specialist support and forced to live in unregulated children's homes.
In the year to the end of March 2019, 8,098 children were placed in three different homes, 12,800 were placed in an unregulated home and there was a lack of secure children’s home places for 200 young people in need of this specialist support, Longfield found.
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