Last week Channel 4's Dispatches broadcast a similar investigation into children's homes. It discovered homes where staff were given responsibilities for which they were insufficiently trained; homes that used agency staff with inadequate background checks; homes that charged inflated prices for services that did not exist. Yet this shocking picture has passed with hardly a murmur in the mainstream press.
There are several reasons for this. The most obvious is that the children suffering such conditions are mostly disturbed adolescents rather than young children or babies. Another reason is that there is no army of concerned parents who can vote with their feet to force standards up and bad establishments out of business.
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