Children in Care Missing from Placement
Received: 7 July 2025
Dear Information Governance Officer, 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.Please provide the data in a machine-readable format (Excel or CSV preferred). If any part of this request is too broad, please advise on how it may be refined.
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