Children’s services directors have warned against a blanket ban on placing vulnerable youngsters in unregulated accommodation such as hostels or caravans.
The children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, had called for a change in the law to stop councils placing 16 and 17 year olds in such accommodation and the introduction of new national standards.
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