Major review to investigate rising numbers of children in care

Joe Lepper
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

A coalition of children's services directors, academics, charities and legal experts has launched a review into the rise in care applications and numbers of children being taken into care.

Some fear that without the national database the country’s hardest-to-place children will wait longer for a match. Picture: Paulo Jorge Cruz/Adobe Stock
Some fear that without the national database the country’s hardest-to-place children will wait longer for a match. Picture: Paulo Jorge Cruz/Adobe Stock

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