More than a hundred children from foster homes, children’s homes, residential schools and care leavers contributed to the report, which found that young people sometimes resorted to running away when complaints procedures had failed, because they “couldn’t think of anything else to do”.
A fifth of young people questionned for the report said that complaints are currently dealt with unfairly, while they suggested three quarters of children who run away from care could be stopped if good complaints systems were in place to solve problems quickly.
Asked what they most often made complaints about, the majority of young people named their social worker. They added that complaining about a carer was “particularly difficult”.
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