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Term information
Term: cross-border placement
Term details for 'cross-border placement'
A residential care placement in another UK country. For a residential placement outside an individual’s local authority or home area, use ‘out-of-area placement’. Term added January 2016.
- Broader terms
- placement
- Related terms
- residential care
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