Date: August 14, 2022
Over 70 organisation’s (one being NIROMP), have responded to @ECPATUK’s chilling report, showing 1,606 children seeking safety in England in the past year were placed in hotels – from which 45 went missing. This is not the care they are entitled to.
Read the joint letter: Unaccompanied children must be protected by the care system, not placed in hotels
Read the coverage of the joint statement in the Independent: Fears for child asylum seekers going missing from UK hotels at rate of one a week: