England's children's homes look to Denmark for answers

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Copenhagen, England's children's minister, Josh MacAlister, has been touring a Danish children's home as part of a Department for Education review.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhat did he find out there that he couldn't find out here?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMostly the ownership. In England, eighty-three percent of children's home places are privately run, and some providers report profit margins above twenty percent.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Denmark, twenty-seven percent of homes are for-profit.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty percent margins on a children's home?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe minister says he was persuaded by dropping a fixed birthday as the day a young person must leave, even during A-level exams.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn England, that day is eighteen. In Denmark, residents aged seventeen and over live in a semi-independent flat with their own kitchen.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo England's policy is a birthday notification.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOn profits, he says officials are waiting for a new market oversight body.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWales plans to ban all for-profit providers in children's social care by twenty thirty, and it did not need a flight.