Missing Children in Care (2020-2024)
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information regarding children in the care of your local authority. 1. For each of the last five calendar years (2020-2024), please provide: * The number of children in care (Looked After Children) reported missing. * Of those, the please provide the number who received a statutory return home interview. * The total number of individual missing incidents involving children in care. * The number of children who went missing more than 10 times in a single year. * The average length of time these children were missing before being located. 2. Of the missing children: * How many were placed in unregulated or semi-independent accommodation? * How many were placed out of area (i.e. outside the boundary of your local authority)? * How many remain unaccounted for / are still classified as missing as of today? 3. For the five-year period: * Please provide any serious incident notifications or referrals made to the Department for Education or Ofsted regarding missing children in care. * If held, please provide any anonymised risk assessments or internal reviews following cases where children in care went missing for more than 7 days.