CYP Now has spoken to the 10 councils involved in a two-year pathfinder project to test the effectiveness of boarding provision as an alternative for vulnerable children, which launched in November 2006. But more than a year on and only two of the pathfinders, Hertfordshire and Suffolk, have taken part, sending just five children between them.
In the other eight authorities not a single child has gone to boarding school as part of the scheme, although a few had sent children prior to the pathfinder's launch. Most authorities said they have not been able to identify any children who would be suitable candidates.
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