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U-turn on children in care

By Nina Teggarty

Updated on 20 April 2009

A committee of MPs proposes a significant change in the approach to children in care.

The committee says that in general residential homes should be chosen rather than foster parents.

If enacted this would be a big U-turn on how most children in care have been looked after in recent years, but it does follow the example of some other European countries.

Nina Teggarty reports.

Samantha Morton talks to Nina Teggarty

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