Unsafe practices at child centres: report

Inappropriate relationships between children, unauthorised adults in bedrooms, and staff without proper qualifications: These were just some of the child safeguarding breaches identified by inspections of residential centres last year.

At one home, management had been alerted to the possibility of “inappropriate relationships” between children but never informed the children’s social workers.

Families also repeatedly warned of their children’s “at-risk” behaviour but this was never addressed.