{"id":728034,"date":"2026-08-05T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728034\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:34:06","slug":"kids-deserve-better-charity-running-childrens-homes-quit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728034\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Kids deserve better’: Charity running children’s homes quit deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shearer, the council’s lead member for children, said they need to learn from what has happened and “make sure the best bits from the homes are perpetuated”.<\/p>\n

She added that there is still a need for homes to look after “our most challenged children in the most family-friendly way”. <\/p>\n

Staffing was one of the biggest challenges the charity faced due to the county’s “rurality”, she added.<\/p>\n

“Some of our homes are in places that are away from say transport links.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have a huge pool of professionals to draw on and that does make life harder for many of our professionals, but particularly I think in social care,” said Shearer. <\/p>\n

Luck echoed this and said finding the quality of staff needed was “significantly more challenging than we estimated”. <\/p>\n

He added that they will work with the council over the next 18 months to make the transition to a new provider once found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shearer, the council’s lead member for children, said they need to learn from what has happened and “make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}