The No Place Like Home report by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for runaway and missing children and adults, suggests that thousands of children are being put at risk by being placed in children's residential care settings up to 100 miles from where they live.
Such practice isolates children from friends, family and social workers and, the report claims, makes councils an unwitting "recruiting sergeant" for those trying to exploit them sexually and criminally.
However, Rachel Dickinson, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), described the suggestions in the report as "wholly inappropriate", adding that she was in "direct dialogue with the report authors".
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