13 h. ago More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care

Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central governmentMore than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian.The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children’s services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care

Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central governmentMore than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian.The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children’s services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago The council overspending at the rate of nearly £500k per week

Rocketing demand for children's social care means Bolton council will need to dip into its cash reserves to balance the books

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48 h. ago Angry neighbours of new camp for 600 lone male asylum seekers hit out at school for telling children to be 'kind and caring' to new arrivals

Crowborough's Army Training Camp in East Sussex is set to move in hundreds of lone male migrants by January - news locals only found out after it was leaked to a newspaper.

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6 d. ago Labour peer who fled Nazis as child hits out at asylum system shake

Lord Alf Dubs said the changes unveiled by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday, which has also caused unease among Labour MPs, will make the UK less welcome

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6 d. ago UK pledges to step up child deportations as part of asylum reforms

Home Office says hesitancy around deporting families creates ‘perverse incentives’ to put children on small boats

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8 d. ago Revealed: The 14,000 foreign criminals let off for saying SORRY

The foreigners were among more than 412,000 offenders who escaped receiving a criminal record because they were handed 'community resolution orders' instead.

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1 week ago Starmer slams ‘utterly spineless’ Farage for failing to condemn Reform councillor who called children in care ‘evil’

Sir Keir Starmer labelled Nigel Farage “utterly spineless” after the Reform UK leader failed to condemn a councillor from his party who called children in care “evil”.

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1 week ago Perth council chief makes grim council tax rise warning over social care costs

The comments from Perth and Kinross Council's leader comes as he meets finance and health ministers to find a solution amid an "unprecedented" level of complex care packages in the region.

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1 week ago East London council pays resident £1k after stopping care payments without back

East London council pays resident £1k after stopping care payments without back-up plan  MyLondon

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2 w. ago Vital services at risk in Wales with social care facing huge black hole, councils say

The financial black hole in social services equates to more than one third of councils' total overspend in this financial year, according to a local government body

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3 w. ago More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickersMore than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK and while in the care of the authorities are still missing, according to data obtained by the Guardian.Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken by traffickers. Kent is often the place where they arrive. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Met take over search for Epping sex offender after a sighting ‘in London area’

Former asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has been missing since being released from prison in errorPolice searching in London for a former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error have urged him to hand himself in.The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Met police urge Epping sex offender spotted in London to hand himself in

Former asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has been missing since being released from prison in errorPolice searching in London for a former asylum seeker and convicted sex offender who was released from prison in error have urged him to hand himself in.The Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl and made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Met Police makes direct appeal to missing asylum seeker to hand himself in

Commander James Conway said that the asylum seeker had taken ‘a number of journeys’ across London since his release on Friday.

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4 w. ago Met cops take over hunt for missing sex offender asylum seeker

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl before he was mistakenly released - and now remains 'at large in London' with the public urged to call 999 if they spot him

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