Missing Persons: Children

(asked on 11th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of how many and what proportion of missing children have previously been victims of (a) crime and (b) modern slavery.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 14th January 2021

People that go missing include some of the most vulnerable in our society. The Government is determined that missing people and their families receive the best possible protection and support; from Government, statutory agencies and the voluntary sector.

While the majority of incidents of children going missing result in no harm, missing incidents can be associated with a number of criminal harms. The Home Office does not hold missing persons data centrally, but the NCA compiles missing persons statistics from police forces in the Missing Persons Unit Data report, published annually at

https://missingpersons.police.uk/cy-gb/resources/downloads/missing-persons-statistical-bulletins

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