Children with specialised needs sent abroad due to care shortage

Vulnerable children with specialised needs are being sent to special residential centres abroad because of a chronic shortage of secure, high-support places and services here.

The Child Care Law Reporting Project (CCLRP) has also found that these “secure care” cases are being dealt with in the High Court in an ad hoc way because of a four-year delay commencing legislation.

The CCLRP, which spent 18 weeks covering the High Court Minors’ Review List, highlights the issues in its final report which will be published today.