Children's care homes insist standards are improving despite a National Care Standards Commission report which found that only 45 per cent of children's care homes met the national minimum standard on child-protection procedures and training. Sheila Scott, chief executive of the National Care Homes Association, said: "In the NCSC's two years of existence, we have been judged against their standards which are paper-based. All care homes have gone a long way in that time and as long as this trend continues then we must take it as a positive." www.csci.org.uk/public ations/facts_figures/capacity_report.pdf.
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