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Stigma that haunts children in care
• I APPLAUD Councillor Ursula Woolley, Lib Dem lead member for children’s services, for saying that she wants “to see a new era for vulnerable children that recognises the importance of keeping them with, or close to, their families” (Fears that children’s homes will be sold off to developers, November 17).
But this is surely an admission that for the past few years Islington children have been removed from loving families and placed into care when family support could well have prevented this draconian action.
It is a bit late in the day to tell some Islington families they lost their children because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time but if they had hung on for two or three years the political will would be there to support them to keep their families together.
Meantime, those children forcefully removed will have been affected by the stigma of being in care, traumatised by their removal from family and friends and have experienced at first hand the appalling record Islington Council has as a corporate parent in terms of providing these youngsters with a decent level of education by the time they leave care.
TREVOR JONES
Hanley Road
N4
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