Moving children far away from home in a privatised care system | Letters

A placement should be selected because it suits the child’s needs best, not the system’s, writes Sarah Parker, while Cllr Barry Kushner says the problem is rooted in the privatisation of careYour report on vulnerable children being sent to care homes hundreds of miles away from where they live (Councils ‘unwittingly helping drug gangs recruit children’, 17 September) makes for uncomfortable reading. More than a third of children are being placed out of their local authori