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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

Hundreds of vulnerable children placed in illegal care homes amid ‘broken system’

Vulnerable children in care are being "regularly put at risk" within a "dysfunctional system," MPs have warned, after hundreds were placed in unregistered homes for months on end.

The Commons spending watchdog branded it "unacceptable" that data revealed approximately 800 children had been housed in such unregulated settings for an average of six months each.

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