residential care

noun

1. social welfare the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults

Example Sentences

"The NAO report concludes that the system of residential care for looked after children is not delivering value for money. On the one hand, costs have doubled to over three billion in the last five years, whilst many children are not in appropriate settings," Ms Wilson told BBC News.

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She wants the Department for Education to do more to oversee a market which she says is failing children in residential care.

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The cost of residential care for vulnerable children in England has nearly doubled in five years but many children still do not receive appropriate care, says a report from the independent public spending watchdog.

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Her son Jack, 22, has a severe learning disability and lives in residential care.

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A spokesperson for the local authority said, as far as it was aware, there was no criminal record checking for individuals housed there and there were five schools and a residential care home within the vicinity.

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