At the launch of the Care Matters: Time to Deliver implementation plan last week, Children's Secretary Ed Balls neatly summed up the disadvantages suffered by looked-after children. They are five times less likely to achieve five good GCSEs and eight times more likely to be excluded from school than their peers. They are also less likely to go to university and more likely to end up in prison.
To tackle this, Balls said: "Professionals need to put themselves in children's shoes and live their journey through the system, as they're planning, commissioning and delivering services, to get to the heart of what children really need."
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