The Howard League has been working with police forces to reduce arrests of children, to ensure that hundreds of thousands of boys and girls do not have their lives blighted by a criminal record.
The death rate for people aged 18 to 34 with learning disabilities in England was 30 times higher than the rate in the same age group without disabilities, researchers found.
Some children’s homes are calling the police repeatedly over matters that would never involve the police if they happened in a family home, says the Howard League.
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee says reduced funding and ever increasing demand have left children’s services in England at breaking point.