Drop in number of young in care
Tuesday 8th April 2008, 12:00AM BST.
THERE has been a dramatic drop in the number of young people staying in care homes in Jersey.
The number of children in care supported at any one time in Greenfields, Heathfield and La Preference residential units has reduced from a high of 143 in February 2003 to a low of 65 in December last year.
And the number of children in care aged under ten reduced from a high of 58 in June 2000 to a low of 18 last December.
Phil Dennet, co-ordinator of the children’s executive , said that Home Affairs, Education, and Health and Social Services had worked together to help keep children out of institutional care.
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