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Children in residential care; what cost?
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Young people `looked after' in residential care by social services can be viewed as a significant problem for child health and mental health services and for education authorities. They are frequently victims, in terms of abusive backgrounds that lead many into the care system, and perpetrators, in terms of child abuse and/or committing offences such as stealing cars. These characteristics, combined with emotional and behavioural problems as well as learning difficulties, lead to great difficulties in meeting these young people's needs. Considerable input is often required from health, education, and social services resulting in inevitably high expenditure. This paper explores these needs and their associated costs.
`Health of the Nation Targets' with regard to teenage pregnancy,
sexually transmitted disease, smoking, suicide, and poor diets are
particularly important for those cared for in residential community
homes.1 Although these health concerns are shared with
this age group as a whole, prevalence is
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