Please provide the following information for the period 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024.
1. How many individual children (those aged 0 – 17) were reported missing in your local authority area?
658
2. How many missing incidents were reported in relation to those missing children (those aged 0 – 17)?
2014
3. How many of those missing incidents had a:
a. Sexual exploitation marker
b. Mental health marker
c. Criminal exploitation marker
d. Trafficking marker
We do not record this information so to extract this information would require an individual review of each of the reports referred to in the response to question 2. Using a time estimate of 5 minutes per report, this would therefore total almost 168 hours. This is in excess of the appropriate time limit of 18 hours and this information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
4. In how many of those incidents was a return home interview completed?
1542 were offered an interview; 1373 were completed
5. In how many of those return home interviews was there evidence of harm having occurred?
6. In how many of those return home interviews with evidence of harm, was the harm:
a. Physical
b. Sexual
c. Self-harm
d. Suicide
e. Emotional / psychological
7. If you routinely record another type of risk marker / type of harm that is not listed here, please also include that information and the number of incidents in which it was recorded.
in response to questions 5-7, we do not record this information so to extract this information would require an individual review of each of the interview records referred to in the response to question 4. Using a time estimate of 5 minutes per record, this would therefore total almost 115 hours. This is in excess of the appropriate time limit of 18 hours and this information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.