The Children’s Commissioner for England has published a report about looked after children who are living in placements outside of their local area. Findings include: over 30,000 (41% of) looked after children are living ‘out of area’ in England, and over 11,000 of these children are more than 20 miles from home. Recommendations include: the […]
Children and young people’s mental health
NHS England has announced that a taskforce will be set up to improve current specialist children and young people’s inpatient mental health, autism and learning disability services in England. The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield will chair an independent oversight board to scrutinise and support the work of the taskforce. Further details are […]