Councils ‘unwittingly helping drug gangs recruit children’

Young people put at risk by sending them to care homes up to 100 miles away, MPs warn
Councils are unwittingly acting as “recruiting sergeants” for drug gangs by sending vulnerable children to care homes miles away from where they live, a parliamentary inquiry has found.Thousands of young people who are sent to children’s homes up to 100 miles (161km) from their homes are becoming magnets for paedophiles and gangs who use children to traffic drugs from inner-city areas to provi