Welcome to another week.
A BBC investigation has uncovered hundreds of children going missing from care every year in the North East.
The probe discovered that 11 local authorities lost 596 youngsters from 2014 to April this year.
The local authority which lost the most children during the five year period was Sunderland City Council, followed by Newcastle City Council and then Durham County Council.
One teenager told the BBC that he found being in care frightening, and that carers hit him and “treated him like rubbish.”
On being questioned over the number of children going missing in their care, spokespeople for Sunderland, Newcastle and Northumberland said the councils had child-focused strategies and that the safety of the children in their care was their priority.
Our question this week then, is this: why do you think councils are losing children inside the care system?
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SO obvious ,so Obvious ! Thousands of children are taken by force every year by family courts from happy, loving, law abiding , but sometimes disorganised or eccentric families to feed the greedy moneymaking fostering and adoption agencies.
These children are usuaily snatched from home at around 6 .30 -7.00 am by uniformed police on instructions from the court and bundled off to live with strangers;Their mobile phones and laptops are confiscated so that they are isolated from family and friends and told they are forbidden to contact their parents or to speak their own language to each other if they are foreign;
If parents are allowed to visit they and their children are both gagged ; Kids in care are forbidden to report abuse by fosterers or social workers ,forbidden to discuss their case or the possibility of coming home otherwise contact is stopped immediately..
In such circumstances children treated worse than criminals in prison frequently succeed in escaping back home or elsewhere.
Why should ANYONE be surprised that thousands of children escape to take refuge from such legal barbarity?
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I must add that the ONLY time the “SS” take the disappearance of a child in care seriusly is if that child runs off with its mum or dad;
That they treat as an outrage in their war against parents and they spend unlimited amounts hunting them down in far away countries if necessary .
“Risk of flight ” is something they always watch for but their terrible anger is directed more against parents for defying them (and whom they seek to jail )than to the kids who seek love and affection ……..
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Councils are losing Children in the care system because they just dont care enough about them. they are the unfortunate older kids who were taken in the dragnet when babies and toddlers are stolen for Adoption.
far more effort is being put into getting kiddies Adopted against the parents wishes.
Sunderland LA in particular boasted in late 2015 their adoption success is running at 24% above the national average and ironically thats where they scored the highest when Ofsted did their checks on them while finding failures in all other areas.
A full investigation into this Scandal is long overdue.
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You will believe I’m crazy when you read this but do we no the age of theses poor children. I believe we live in a terrible currped world and from exeprienceing this dysfunctional system hiw took my life when they took my grandchildren. And lied avoided belittling me and my right to my family life and theres my grandchildren. And because I’ve thought and never stopped they have hit me from every direction MASH.were sent to myself and my son how dare they case closed. I put request for subject data request council say have nothing impossible as I’ve emailed every one there social services wont reply as I sent request also any way I really don’t want to believe this but I have no choice it terrifies me but I believe there farmed out pregnated then done with I believe they produce like a chicken factory and boys when there done with body s left good for nothing brains that will be good to this world are done with and the elivater keeps producing. You can say I’m a banana but we now about abuse in the system in the police in are justice systems in parliament and I’m not takeing verbally. There’s a syndecut in are horrible world this can’t just be about money yes lower down the ranks but this goes way to the top no reporting what’s that about come on
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Always good to talk .
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thank you
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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Looked after Children and Care Leavers set up an inquiry in response to recent concerns about the care and support that these groups of children currently receive.
The inquiry examined the issues around children who go missing from care and how they can be better protected.
The report outlines why children in care are at risk, finding:
there are just over 65,000 children in care in England. Most live in foster care, and 7% live in one of England’s 1,810 children’s homes
many of these children have had a difficult start in life, so are vulnerable and easy prey for exploitative adults
children in homes are likely to be older, more vulnerable and are more likely to have complex needs
an estimated 10,000 children go missing from care every year, many of whom are at risk of being physically or sexually abused or exploited.
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Thanks, Ian. I think this is a cop out answer from the APPG, it doesn’t really answer why children in cars go missing and worse, blames the children, which to my mind is irresponsible and irrational.
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i agree Natasha but the figure of 10,000 going missing every year does contrast amazingly with thehue and cry aroused when just one poor single mum dares to elope with her own child to try and escape forced adoption!
When this happens judges and police appeal via press and TV to try and track down the miscreant who has dared to defy the system ! Never let one of them get away …….
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Yes, I agree that the system is filled with double standards
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Again this compares with Nazi Germany when one of the Jews escaped the death camp they would be out in force with their dogs to track them down.
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who cares? Compliant UK parents will continue to steam on FB and fight with each other . Regrettfully.
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I believe this has happened in the South East of England too . My child is missing last seen in Ireland abducted by illegal social-working with lodged papers detailing this with the GRO NCPC European Parliament , Irish Minister of Affairs and many other Government Departments proving the social worker fabricated reports for the courts in the South East under the watch of Director of Children Services Ireland and the Director of Children Services [edited]. The Social worker is still conducting her nefarious trade operating in [edited].
Even a simple request goes unanswered from all of them!:
23rd May 2019 to MInister’s Office , dept of Children and Youth Affairs , Block 1 Miesian Plaza, 50-58 Baggot Street Lower Dublin 2; and the European Parliament DG ITEC General Secretariat
“As I have had no response in regard to my letter dated 2019.04.19. Do I conclude my daughter has been cast adrift to Ireland as compared to a third world country”
7th May 2019 to MInister’s Office , dept of Children and Youth Affairs , Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50-58 Baggot Street Lower Dublin 2; and the European Parliament DG ITEC General Secretariat
“With due respect and without a reply to my letter dated 19th April 2009. How long now must I wait as I have registered contemptuous note of pitfalls of numerous errors on the part of social workers acting in respect to my daughters interest must I wait for a letter from my daughter aged 10+ in her own hand expressing that she is alive, in good spirit, health and well looked after?”
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There has still been no updated from Ireland or The EU I am appaled nothing is still being done
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In October 2012 Parliamentary minutes recorded Lords & Baronesses’s who were having a little chat when it was acknowledged that 10,000 children go missing from care EVERY year!
Seven years later not much has changed.
Something is very odd about how year on year the same amount of kids go missing. What are the ages of the kids?
If any other organisation were responsible for 10,000 kids going missing each year they would be arrested & shut down.
The Mc Canns have already been funded £11.75m (plus a £ 300.000 top up June 2019 ) after their daughter Maddie went missing in 2007 but how much money has been used to fund other children who are missing?
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