But haven't we just had a report on care standards from the children's rights director? Indeed, but that wasn't quite like this harrowing, coruscating report on the complete failure of the care system. Harriet Sergeant of the Centre for Policy Studies (core principles: "individual choice and responsibility, and the concepts of duty, family, liberty, and the rule of law"), spent a year meeting young people in care, care leavers, social workers and other professionals, and the result is damning. The impact of the care system is described as a crime, a tragedy, catastrophic, an uncontrolled experiment and, in one particular case, comparable only to Cambodia under Pol Pot.
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