This just in.
The Public Accounts Committee will be holding a session in the House of Commons next week on Monday 7th September at 4pm, to discuss care leavers.
It is expected that the meeting will focus on several areas, including outcomes for children in foster and residential care, as well as how well children are taken care of within these arrangements.
Witnesses scheduled to attend and take part in the meeting are listed below:
Monday 7 September, Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
At 4pm
- Emma Corbett, Participation Manager, Who Cares? Trust
- Dembo, Emanuel and Joanne, recent care leavers
At 4.30pm
- Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education
- Paul Kissack, Director General, Children’s Services and Departmental Strategy, Department for Education
- Alison O’Sullivan, President, Association of Directors of Children’s Services
The meeting can be watched on Parliament TV, and further information about the Public Accounts Committee and the Care Leavers Inquiry can be found here.
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I was one of the people in the early 80s who set up hostels for the homeless and most of them were from the care system, and what of a little 18 year old who use to go to Stanford Hill North London to sell his body to the long distance lorry drivers so he could get some sweeties and food, poor little boy since he was a baby in care he had been sexually abused and given sweets to shut him up, I will presume like many kids leaving and have left the care system over the years are most likely dead. And we have untold social workers and experts all “In a child’s best interest” with their own registered companies in the property, but will the kids get a bed only if the SS pay. Truth will only be told from the GROUND LEVEL AND NOT THEM FROM A COLLAGE WHO ARE JUST EARNING A WAGE. IF YOU CARE FOR KIDS THEN FORGET THE MONEY.
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Perhaps some one or better still the JUDGES have the answer as to why a person can take away a child’s young years by sexually abusing them and many are just a few months old with many kids who are murdered trafficked and abused in every way and what does a JUDGE DO not a lot maybe send a person to prison for a few years knowing that person will only serve a 1/3 of the sentence and a child has lost a life, I can really understand why some of the EU countries are up in arms against Britain’s child abuse,
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THAT PEOPLE DO NOT CHANGE THEY CAN ADAPT,
So you judges and courts continue to send the children’s abusers to prison for a few years only to come out of prison and start again to abuse a defenceless child. No one seems to care for out poor little children and that can be seen and heard from all of the money and meetings all going no where.
So another meeting on the 7th September for what, if they really want to help the kids from care then get out of your warm beds and get to know them go and see them on the streets and see how they live in cardboard boxes begging for food. Wish I had a magic wand then you would see the suffering of the kids from care.
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