Mick Clifford: State is failing many children in its care

Children who feature in the Child Law Project report are going through their young lives in the kind of circumstances most of us find difficult to imagine

The range of problems that some children carry is just too much for some foster families to handle.

The judge describe the girl as “a daughter of the state”. She had been in care since she was four months old. 

Her mother had been a child in care herself and she was just 17 when she gave birth to the girl.