Hundreds go missing from care

Information from a survey of local authorities by the Care Leavers’ Association has found as many as 389 young people have gone missing from care since 2000. The majority of them are believed to be asylum seekers targeted by traffickers after arriving in the UK who were in the South of England. While the survey indicated that some local authorities could account for all the young people in their care, as many as 41 LAs have seen young people go missing without a trace. The charity is calling on local authorities to do as much as they can to find the children and said that an urgent inquiry was needed.