The Home Office set up the hotels children are going missing from *expressly* outside the duties in the Children Act that local authorities do hold. Gavin Williamson approved it.
Nat gov *bypassed* councils & child protection law so that their hotels are NOT run under LA duties
Nat gov *bypassed* councils & child protection law so that their hotels are NOT run under LA duties
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1618229311877648390
What Rishi Sunak is saying in his answer at #PMQs today is that the Home Office is contracting hotels and putting children at very high risk in them, and *then* holds the local council and police responsible for failing to protect those children in the "care" of the Home Office
It *is* a grave, sustained child protection failure, and most child protection failures do involve multiple agencies..... but what happens to the Home Office for losing several school-classes-worth of real, live children, without trace?
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1580687437621239835?s=20&t=5j89NGXF9BXT-0KrUnzoow
This is the correspondence between us and 70+ orgs with Gavin Williamson, expressing our alarm and the extreme danger we saw for children, in his decision to approve Home Office use of hotels at the time.... childrenengland.org.uk/news/vulnerabl…
+ another joint statement a yr later as @ECPATUK research revealed scale of children going missing from HO hotels. Rising numbers & whistle-blower revelations of witnessed kidnappings only escalate the scale of this *known* ongoing child protection failure
childrenengland.org.uk/news/care-not-…
childrenengland.org.uk/news/care-not-…
Here’s me explaining how deeply decimated councils, care services and child protection have been by cuts over the last 12 years, impacting ALL children in need, at risk and in state care - incl unaccompanied children arriving here who *used to* immediately come into council care
October 2022.....”Do you have a worry that more of these children will go missing?”
“Clearly. The record of these hotels speaks for itself”
“This can’t embed as the right way to look after children”
“Clearly. The record of these hotels speaks for itself”
“This can’t embed as the right way to look after children”
If you think a child who is male, or from a specific country you've decided you don't like, is unworthy of our care and protection as a victim of international, organised crime...or less abused than other trafficked children because of their nationality or gender....you're wrong
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