Top 15 issues for children in care

When young people talk to us, these are the things they’ve been saying…

  1. Placements – wanting/not wanting to move

  2. Wanting a new social worker

  3. Needing more money

  4. Things not being done that were promised

  5. Homelessness - Social Services refusing to accommodate

  6. Issues around education

  7. Immigration issues

  8. Wanting access to their records

  9. Wanting to complain

  10. Wanting support with a Secure Accommodation Review

  11. Wanting/not wanting to be on a Care Order

  12. Feeling unsafe and needing help e.g. gangs, safeguarding issues, bullying, trafficking & sexual exploitation

  13. Breakdown of relationship with Children’s Services

  14. Support with adjudications, restraints etc (in Young Offender Institutions)

  15. Issues in the institution (e.g. children’s home) they are living - food, lack of activity or education, bullying, problem with staff, property going missing, visits

If you need help with any of the issues above, please contact our helpline here.