Children’s services directors have dismissed as ‘wholly inappropriate’ MPs’ claims that councils are acting as inadvertent ‘recruiting sergeants’ for drugs gangs.
A Parliamentary inquiry into so-called county lines drugs gangs has warned that young people in care are being put at risk when they are sent to homes hundreds of miles from where they live.
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