Maxine Wrigley, chief executive of A National Voice, said some of the headlines used in national newspapers have been counterproductive in the battle against negative perceptions of looked-after children.
She said: "This is generating more of a stigma for looked-after children and is not helpful at all to the professionals who work in the sector and the children and young people themselves."
Last month CYP Now reported that the Children's Rights Alliance for England's director Mike Lindsay was urging the government, through the Equality Bill, to make it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of their care status.
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