Bcc Politics
@BBCPolitics·875K subscribers·4.2K videos
Britain’s Hidden Children’s Homes: Teens far from home – BBC Newsnight
Posted
July 17, 2019
Views
14,397
Likes
155
Comments
48
Engagement
1.41%
July 17, 2019
14,397
155
48
1.41%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
19:50Now PlayingFigures uncovered by Newsnight suggest a continuing rise in "out of borough" placements - teens housed in unregulated care homes, often far away from the council which placed them.
Subscribe to our channel here
The number of teenagers sent to unregulated care homes outside their home borough has doubled since 2014 and data seen by Newsnight indicates they are set to rise further this year.
The government is set to hold a round-table meeting of care experts to discuss "best practice".
Police have raised concerns to Newsnight about the number of teenagers reported missing from these homes - in one case a child had gone missing more than 100 times.
Emily is joined by children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
