Moving children far away from home in a privatised care system

‘What young, vulnerable people need to get back on track is good people around them, a decent place to live and a purpose in life.’ Photograph: Sami Suni/Getty ImagesYour 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 authority area, and these childr