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When a children’s home is one more stop on the road to prison

New research adds to weight of evidence in the UK that looked after children are being criminalised.

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IMAGE: REECE WYKES

One late summer afternoon I received a telephone call from a residential worker in a children’s home. They had a problem. A child had climbed onto the roof of the large Victorian house and was refusing to come down. He told staff he wanted to talk to me, his children’s rights officer. I agreed to come straightaway. It was a 10 minute drive.