On any given night, hundreds (if not thousands) of children in the UK stay in an unregistered, illegal children's home, placed there in most cases by a desperate local authority. How did we get here? Use of unregistered homes and placements has increased by over 350% in the last four years, and yet explanations for this rapid proliferation, and detailed depictions of what they are like in practice, have not been forthcoming until now. A recent report commissioned by Commonweal Housing, and authored by Public First, gave the clearest picture yet of this alarming, unaccountable shadow sector.
Commonweal and Public First will present their findings, and recommendations aimed at abolishing their use, at this session.
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
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| Standard - L&L - Unregistered (Illegal) Children's Homes: why, how, what's next? | £15.00 | |
| Member - L&L - Unregistered (Illegal) Children's Homes: why, how, what's next? | £0.00 |
Fraser Maclean is Commonweal Housing's Policy Manager. Commonweal is a housing charity, with a focus on innovative supported housing schemes and commissioning research into housing provision and the sector more broadly. Current areas of work include at-risk youth and the criminal justice sector.
Samantha Lurock is a Safeguarding Consultant at Safeguarding Network and is a registered Social Worker. Prior to joining Safeguarding Network, she worked for over 12 years in statutory social work settings with children aged pre-birth to 18 years. She has extensive experience of providing both strategic and case-specific oversight and direction for child safeguarding matters relating to risk outside of the home, familial harm, child to child harm and harm from professionals who work with children. She has a passion for delivering accessible and supportive safeguarding learning to a wide variety of audiences including police, health and education colleagues.
My membership is something I value as I work in academia, my knowledge and expertise is enhanced by the AoCPP community itself and the Child Abuse Review journal. I enjoy and receive great benefit from the opportunity to attend conference events and Congress to "tap into" cutting edge research and evidence of best practice nationally and internationally, all of which benefit the students on my teaching programmes and my own research and publications