I've watched 1st hand as the young-person-in-care that I meet with via the Independent Visitors Scheme* was moved 123 miles and then 70 miles away from her home, and the type places that she has been 'dumped' (no other word) five placements in 12 months. This article starts to articulate the horrors
Kirsty Grainger
It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing.
Please sit down before reading this week's column.
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Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
