It shows that 47 per cent of looked-after children had experienced atleast one change of school in addition to expected age-related movessince coming into care. One in five had experienced two or moreadditional moves and one in 20 had moved schools at least fourtimes.
Vicki Swain, policy and campaigns manager at the Fostering Network,conducted the research. "A lot of school moves are because we don't haveenough local foster carers with the skills to care for these children,"she said.
"We found one child who had moved school 17 times as a result of beingin care. I was horrified." But Swain paid tribute to foster carers formaking sure children in care didn't experience even more schoolmoves.
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