Missing Children 2020 - Find a freedom of information request

Request

As part of my studies I am researching missing children in relation to Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation in the UK.

1. Please can you inform me the total number of missing children episodes were identified in your authority for 2020?

2. How many individual children do these cases relate to?

3. How many of these were looked after children?

Decision

1. There were 1060 missing children episodes identified in the authority for 2020

2. These cases relate to 516 individual children

3. 162 of these were looked after children

Reference number
1847449
Date request received
21 June 2021
Date of decision
06 July 2021