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Children in care suffer ill health and educational underachievement

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Summary

Examining the question ‘What is the best way to care for children unable to grow up with their birth parents?’, this Report also reviews children’s services reforms carried out under the Every Child Matters programme, and puts forward numerous proposals including creating a Centre of Excellence for Children’s and Families' Services.

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Law-Making Explained

This is a Command paper (Cm 6932): it is a Green Paper from Department for Education and Skills.
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How does it affect me?

Proposals to improve the situation for children and young people in care include: trials for intensive whole family therapy which aim to keep families together where possible; improved links between adults' and children's services; and the creation of a Centre of Excellence for Children's and Families Services.

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