Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Children Missing from Care Homes - May 8

Ann Coffey (Stockport) (Lab):...The National Crime Agency’s 2017 report into county lines drug operations said that gangs were deliberately targeting vulnerable children and young people in care. It said:

“Children assessed as vulnerable due to missing episodes do appear to be more regularly linked directly or through association to drug networks operating in the areas they reside.”

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