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Explain Why Children Should Not Be Institutionalised

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When living as a group it is easy to begin to institutionalise children by taking them all on one activity because it may be easier, or eating the same dinner at the same time each night. However the children are individuals and are not the same as one another, they should not be institutionalised. Each child have different personalities, preferences, wishes and beliefs they should be able to make their own decisions within reason when safe to do so, so that they don’t become institutionalised. Bullying also means that children begin to avoid groups as they fear being bullied and there has been evidence to suggest that children who live in residential homes are bullied. The residential community theory suggests that people thought that
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