Residential care homes accommodate some of the most vulnerable young people in the country.
Often specialising in taking extremely traumatised children, in many cases residential settings offer therapeutic services that other placements may not.
But figures recently released in the House of Commons Library showing the number of children placed in residential care in each local authority has prompted a leading care expert to question local policies of allocating residential care places.
Jonathan Stanley, manager of the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care, says local authorities that appeared to have the same number of children in residential care each year may be capping places, rather than being led by the needs of the children.
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