The report highlights that it is not because residential care is less willing, able or competent that children leave from these settings particularly disadvantaged; it is because residential care is the departure point from care and frequently the last in a series of placements that have failed to successfully meet or address the child's needs.
Background
The report cites data from 2016 showing that around seven per cent of children in care are in residential care, and in 2015, 10,800 left care; almost double the number in 2005.
Care leavers are more likely than the general population to be not in education, employment or training, in prison, homeless, teenage parents, working in the sex trade, in debt, suffering with mental health problems and to have self-harmed.
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