Social Services: Inspection of Planning, Decision Making & Safeguards for Children Looked After

Social Services: Inspection of Planning, Decision Making & Safeguards for Children Looked After - London Borough of Lambeth May-June 2000

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Mentioning 'Unaccompanied asylum seekers'

"1.1 This inspection was ordered by the Minister of State for Health and arose out of concerns about childcare practice in the Social Services Department (SSD). As a result of these concerns it was decided in November 1999 that the authority should be formally monitored by the Department of Health.

Ethnic Monitoring

looked after children and child protection populations. Fifty five percent of looked after children were either black or mixed race. Unaccompanied asylum seekers may well contribute to this figure, but those for children on the register showed even high over-representation with sixty-two percent of the population.

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