Okay, I think I need to issue a trigger warning as I embark on a thread about tragic deaths....

But I am myself feeling very triggered by the mass media top-billing for the tragic (yes, I agree it is tragic) situation of the people in the Titanic submarine I have compassion for every person in that tiny vessel, indeed I am feeling the claustrophobic trauma of the hourly countdown of the search and their diminishing oxygen

But I have been feeling that way about every human soul making dangerous sea crossings to flee for safety

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

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