Four children and young people who were criminalised while living in residential care have told their stories in a new briefing published by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
One young person, Eddie*, who was taken into care at 11 and again at 13, reveals that he attempted suicide in a children’s home on Christmas Day. He says that a care worker’s response to his self-harming led to him being charged with assault and spending a night in a police cell.
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