We Need To Care About Social Care: Using Handcuffs To Transport Children? - UK Column News

We Need To Care About Social Care: Using Handcuffs To Transport Children? 
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-10th-may-2024
- GOV.UK: Main findings: children's social care in England 2023
- UK Parliament (2023): Children’s social care: Education Committee to investigate if Government’s reforms are going far and fast enough 
- UK Parliament: Oral evidence: Children's social care—30 April 2024
- BBC (2022): Culture of abuse found at three Doncaster special schools
- Ofsted: The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2020/21 (PDF)
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- House of Commons: Education Committee Oral evidence: Children’s social care, HC 372 (PDF)
- GOV.UK: Ofsted: Largest national providers of private and voluntary social care (March 2022) 
“In 2020–21, £11 billion was spent on children’s services. Of this, £5.7 billion, or almost half, was spent on children in care. Almost two thirds (£3.7 billion) of spend on children in care went on residential and fostering care. Of the £1.8 billion spent on all foster care, £0.9 billion was in the private sector. Of the £1.8 billion spent on all residential children’s care, £1.3 billion was in the private sector.”
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