Extract from oral answer (Lords) on Missing Asylum Seeking Unaccompanied Children - Jul 10

Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab): To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to find all the asylum seeking unaccompanied children who have gone missing from Home Office care.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Borders (Lord Murray of Blidworth) (Con): While the responsibility for locating missing children is ultimately for the police, the Home Office works closely with local authorities and other partners to try to locate missing unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and ensure that they are safe. As part of this, the Home Office continues to collaborate with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the National Crime Agency to ensure consistency in our national approach and response...

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