Source: Children & Young People Now Monday, June 12, 2023
The legal dispute was launched after 66 children were reported missing from a Home Office hotel in Brighton and Hove.
Carolyne Willow, director of Article 39, said: “This judgment has brought vital clarity to a wholly unacceptable situation where extremely vulnerable children have been treated as being in ‘legal limbo’, outside the protection of the Children Act 1989. That was a fiction which unforgivably exposed children to serious harm.
“The Home Office has no power to house children outside the care system, and government should be properly funding and supporting local authorities to meet their comprehensive duties.”
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