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Councils spend more than £125m a year on illegal children's homes

Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children here

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England’s treatment of vulnerable children is a scandal

The demand for children’s care has enabled providers to command high fees from local authorities, averaging £384,020 per child a year
Rise in ‘million-pound placements'

Rise in ‘million-pound placements’ as vulnerable children with additional needs are housed illegally in caravans, holiday camps and AirBnBs
£2m per child placements on the rise

Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils.
The companies making cash from England's children in care

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes run by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures
The scandal of Britain’s locked-up children

“Deprivation of Liberty orders are meant to be a temporary protection for the most vulnerable. They’re failing.”