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Children locked away: Britain's modern bedlam

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Becky's Case Is a Highly-Disregulated Teenage Girl Who Needs Support and Is Not Getting It

The High Court judge overseeing Becky's case is Mrs. Justice Leavin. No recording is permitted in court, so an actor is voicing her words. The local council and the NHS have been asked to provide court documents suggesting a suitable placement for Becky. But they file their paperwork late, very late, and so the judge doesn't have the information she needs. A judge having to Google to find information about a placement for this child who is in such distress that she keeps trying to kill herself,. sometimes several times a day. In the family justice system, it's an open secret that we are living through a nationwide, chronic children's care crisis. We have been living through it for years.

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