The really awful part is that the report could have been written 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
It seems even in the 21st century we haven't lost the capacity to fail the most vulnerable children in our midst.
This time it came from England, where the office of the Children's Commissioner detailed an all-too-familiar litany of staff with poor qualifications, children whose complex needs were not addressed, young people put in homes at the opposite end of the country from where they had previous relationships, and, chillingly, places commissioned by cash-strapped local authorities on the basis more of cost than quality, often on an 80/20 split between the two.
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