There are more than 12,600 children in care in England aged below five – that’s 83 for each local authority area. What circumstances do ‘children in care’ live in? The term doesn’t just apply to children who have been removed from the care of a parent or parents. It also includes children who live at home with their birth parents or relatives under the supervision of social care departments.
Children can also live with foster parents, in residential children’s homes or in other residential settings such as schools or secure units. They might have been placed temporarily in care voluntarily by parents struggling to cope. Or social care might have intervened because a child was at risk of significant harm. All these children in care have been placed, to a greater or lesser degree, under the protection of the state.
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