Community Care have reported that the High Court has dismissed a children’s rights charity’s claim that the government’s failure to ban unregulated placements for children in care aged 16 or 17 was unlawful.
Article 39 brought the challenge against the Department for Education last year after arguing that a ban on unregulated accommodation for under-16s, introduced last September, wrongly excluded 16- and 17-year-olds and left them exposed to harm.
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