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Sat.Apr 01, 2023

‘I felt totally abandoned’: the trauma of being uprooted and taken into care

The Guardian

APRIL 1, 2023

Jennifer Mohammadi and Kerrie Portman were both transplanted far from home by the care system … and still feel the consequences The night Jennifer Mohammadi arrived in her new “home”, she begged and begged to leave. The teenager had been taken into care around a year earlier following a decline in her mother’s mental health. But this placement was different.

Mental Health

Care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away

The Guardian

APRIL 1, 2023

Observer investigation uncovers the scale of the crisis in a system where the most vulnerable ‘will continue to be put at risk’ Some of Britain’s most vulnerable children are being moved to care homes more than 300 miles away from the neighbourhoods they grew up in, according to an Observer investigation revealing a “national scandal”. The shocking figures make clear for the first time the scale of the crisis that has long worried child welfare experts.

Child Welfare

Child Welfare Welfare

Sat.Apr 01, 2023

‘I felt totally abandoned’: the trauma of being uprooted and taken into care

Care homes crisis: children sent to live hundreds of miles away

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