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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.
It has improved my knowledge and understanding about the range of harms caused to children and their impact as I have been able to network with a wide range of experts from the UK and beyond. There is no other multidisciplinary association for child protection professionals focused on learning to support and improve practice and policy
