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About 'Keeping in touch with home'
Read about the importance of children’s contact with family and ways to keep in touch.
Keeping in Touch with Home, reveals the significant barriers families can encounter in trying to keep in touch with children in residential placements.
The report is the first time guidance has been issued on how residential settings should ensure parents can keep in touch with the thousands of children and young people with a learning disability who often live hundreds of miles from home during their childhood and adolescence in specialist residential placements. These placements could include residential special schools or colleges, mental health assessment and treatment units, and children’s homes.
The report, produced by the Challenging Behaviour Foundation and Mencap is based on research with families whose children are in residential placements. Their children (some now young adults) have complex needs, limited verbal communication and behaviour described as challenging.