Summary:
Vulnerable children are being sent to residential homes in the same street as known sex offenders, the BBC has learned.

Full article:
By . Emma Clark . PUBLISHED: . 10:21 EST, 3 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 13:20 EST, 3 July 2012 . Fifteen sex offenders are living in the same street as a number of residential homes for vulnerable children, a government minister has revealed. Vulnerable children are being sent to residential homes in Margate, pictured, in the same street as known sex offenders . Too many privately-run children's homes are near high numbers of registered sex offenders, the childrne's minister Tim Loughton has said . He warned yesterday that privately-owned homes have . become dumping grounds for unwanted children where they are ‘out of . sight, out of mind’. Thousands of children have gone missing from . hundreds of homes which have too often been given a clean bill of health . by Ofsted even though the teenage residents have been exposed to sexual . abuse. The violence, sadism and exploitation these youngsters are subjected to was described as ‘chilling’ and ‘truly horrific’ Children's minister Tim Loughton said vulnerable children are at risk .