Christine Lenehan, director of the Council for Disabled Children, which is part of the National Children's Bureau, will soon publish a Department of Health-commissioned review about the care and treatment of children with some of the most complex needs imaginable: challenging behaviour coupled with mental health problems and learning difficulties. Children in this group often find themselves placed in the "too difficult" file, ending up in placements more like prisons. In time, the way we treat children in this group becomes the norm, where despite many of their human rights being violated we are relieved to have found a solution that keeps them out of the way.
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