https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/children-in-care-feeling-unsafe-and-uncared-for

Vulnerable kids are being placed in caravans and AirBnBs by a social care system that puts ‘profit above protection,’ Children’s Commissioner warns

BRITAIN’S most vulnerable children are being placed in caravans and Airbnbs by a social care system that puts “profit-making above protection.”

In a heartbreaking report, the Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza slammed the “stark failure of the children’s social care system” as she told of an autistic teenager left in an Airbnb for nine months.

The girl was put there under supervision by her council following pressure to discharge her from hospital having not met the criteria to be held under the Mental Health Act.

Dame Rachel also described how a teenage girl who suffered parental domestic violence and neglect being given a supervised crisis placement in a caravan, before being housed in a children’s home 120 miles from her grandparents.

The commissioner called for “radical investment in creating new and safe places for children to live” and an end to “profiteering in children’s social care.”

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/children-in-care-feeling-unsafe-and-uncared-for