Special Report
Big Read: The children lost in a care system at ‘crisis point’
Separated children, including many migrants from Ukraine, are the ones suffering the most from the service’s shocking lack of resources
Judge Dermot Simms did not mince his words when he wrote to ministers in May expressing his “utmost concern” for the welfare of children in state care.
Emphasising the “likelihood” that the state would face legal action due to its “failure to comply adequately with its duty of care” to children, Simms highlighted in particular the lack of appropriate foster places and social workers, and the increasing proliferation of special emergency accommodation arrangements that were ...