{"id":93463,"date":"2026-08-27T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93463"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:30:42","slug":"vulnerable-children-deliberately-self-harming-to-stay-in-care-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/vulnerable-children-deliberately-self-harming-to-stay-in-care-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable children deliberately self-harming to stay in care, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2b1XSy.img?w=768&h=615&m=6\" alt=\"\u2018Many of these children and young people have experienced extreme neglect and often physical and sexual abuse \u2026 They see self-harming as a route to safety.\u2019 Photograph: Elva Etienne\/Getty Images\" width=\"501\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most vulnerable children and young people in care are deliberately self-harming to avoid being abandoned when they get better or turn 18 and face a \u201ccliff edge\u201d of no further support\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/vulnerable-children-deliberately-self-harming-to-stay-in-care-research-finds\/ar-AA2b1Gol?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a903595ccaa49bdb685b350901d120a&ei=24\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Some of the most vulnerable children and young people in care are deliberately self-harming to avoid being abandoned when they get better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mental-and-pyhsical-peaks.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93464,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93463\/revisions\/93464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}