More than half of English councils place young people leaving care in unsuitable accommodation for long periods, an investigation by Barnardo's has found. The BBC reports that 51 per cent of councils told the charity they placed teenagers in bed-and-breakfasts for a month or more in 2013/14. Under government guidance, councils should only use B&Bs in an emergency when a young person needs urgent help.
Teachers in Dorset resorted to supermarket shopping and ordering takeaway pizza after a contractor failed to deliver school dinners. The Times reports that Chartwells, which won a four-year contract to provide more than 11,000 hot meals a day to pupils in schools in Dorset, failed to deliver food. Many schools found meals were either delivered late, did not arrive at all or were of such poor quality they were unable to feed them to the children.
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