Current Affairs Are Czech children's care homes still using cage beds?
On Tuesday night, the BBC broadcast a report on its 10 O’Clock News programme, showing children in Czech care homes locked-up in caged beds. The use of cage beds in Czech institutions such as children’s homes has provoked international outcry in the past, and at the beginning of 2007, they were banned by Czech law. The report suggests, however, that the majority of Czech children’s care homes are continuing to use them, and violating the law - but the government claims that nothing illegal is shown in the report, and that the beds featured are more like cots than cages.
Joanne Rowling
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