The recommendations come as part of the results of Dame Rachel de Souza’s Big Ask survey which questioned more than half a million children aged four to 17 about their lives, including 3,800 children in care and 13,000 people with a social worker.
It finds that children in care are more likely than their peers who are not in care to be unhappy with their mental health, family life and life at school.
Some 61 per cent of nine- to 17-year-olds in care said they are happy with their lives compared with 71 per cent of those not in care of the same age group.
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