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Save Aiming High for disabled children: Residential placements
- Provider:
- Anne Pinney, Independent Researcher
- Topics:
- Aiming High for Disabled Children, Social care, welfare, protection
- Type:
- Research
- Date:
- November 2005
The 2005 report Disabled children in residential placements provides the most comprehensive picture yet of children in residential placements, drawing on education, health and social care data.
The report should be of interest to local and national policy-makers involved in children's services, particularly those involved in:
- planning and commissioning services for children with learning difficulties and disabilities
- safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in residential settings.
In December 2005 the DfES held a seminar to discuss the findings. A report on that seminar is also available to download.
Background
This report was commissioned on the back of a recommendation in 2003 that a range of data about disabled children should be collated and published. The 2003 report drew upon People like us (the 1997 report of the review of the safeguards for children living away from home), which concluded that disabled children are more vulnerable to abuse of all kinds.
The 2003 report recommended that the range of data about disabled children should be collated and published. In 2005 the DfES commissioned a further report to pull this data together and examine the effectiveness of the exercise, which is the report available to download here.
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Last updated on 01/11/2005
