Janet Rich, children's services development officer at the National Care Association, said it contained "obvious gaps", principally its failure to provide a right to independent advocacy for all children in care.
She said: "The government maintains that it has done enough to protect the child's voice, but children who have disagreements about where they are placed, when they are moved and what age they leave care at should have this advocacy support."
Roger Morgan, the children's rights director for England within Ofsted, said that children embroiled in a conflict over their care arrangements wanted an independent advocate to argue their case. In other circumstances, some children he consulted suggested that they would feel more comfortable with an advocate they knew.
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