Children missing from care - Find a freedom of information request

Between January and November 2018 and then November 2018 and November 2022:

a. How many children (under 18) in the council's care were identified as being the victim of exploitation including gang involvement, involvement in criminal activity/child criminal exploitation,

trafficking, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation or risk of other exploitation.

Of those, how many were:

• Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC)
• Refugees from countries such as Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine (SAU)
• Citizens (non-UASC or SAU).

b. How many individual incidents of these children going missing from care were recorded each year?

i. Again, please break down into the above categories.

c. How many times were there incidents where the child was recorded as missing for over a week and what were the shortest and longest durations until they were returned?

Again, please break down into the above categories. Please provide timescales in weeks.

Please break down all of the above by year.

Note 1: Numbers of children has been based upon Assessment Factors and SAFE Team CSE Contacts

Note 2: UASC have not been included in the figures for Refugees

b. i)

c.

Note 3: It is assumed that all parts of this question refer to those children missing for over a week