Dozens of migrant children still missing years after vanishing in UK

Nearly 500 minors disappeared from government-run asylum hotels, with 40 still unaccounted for years later, Parliament’s human rights committee says Dozens of immigrants who disappeared from UK asylum hotels as children in 2023 are still unaccounted for, a parliamentary report released on Thursday has found.Some 472 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children – some as young as 12 – went missing from Home Office-run accommodation for migrant minors.According to the Director of Children’s Social Care at the Department for Education, Helen Waite, 432 have since been located, leaving 40 unaccounted for. Most have since turned 18, but two remain underage.The committee “welcomed” that most had been found but said it remains “extremely concerned” about those still missing. It urged the Home Office to detail efforts to locate them, demanding updates every three months. Angela Eagle, then border security and asylum minister, told the committee last year that some of those found were “located in exploitative situations and may have been trafficked.”Commenting on the report, England’s Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza called the situation an “unacceptable failure.” “Every child arriving in t...