Requests: for the last 5 years (2019-2023).
Please note that, in terms of the last 5 years, we are using financial years 2018-19 to 2022-23 inclusive.
For each question we have used our Looked After Children as the cohort.
Please also note that we can only provide refugee status of accompanied or unaccompanied asylum seeker as we do not hold any other types of refugee information in the system in a reportable format, if at all.
1. What is the refugee status of the individual missing children (not missing children episodes).
Number of children who have been Missing = 386 Of which are Asylum Seekers = 10
2. What is the Ethnicity of the individual missing children.
| White – British | 336 |
| Any other ethnic group | 6 |
| Other white origin | 10 |
| Gypsy/Roma | 9 |
| Pakistani | 2 |
| White and Black Caribbean | 4 |
| Any other mixed background | 5 |
| White – Irish | 3 |
| Any other Asian background | 5 |
| Irish Traveller | 1 |
| White – Polish | 1 |
| White and Asian | 2 |
| White and Black African | 1 |
| African | 1 |
3. What is the identified gender of the individual missing children (not missing children episodes)
| Female | 174 |
| Gender Neutral | 1 |
| Indeterminate | 2 |
| Male | 207 |
| Transgender | 1 |
| Undecided | 1 |
4. Do any of the missing children (not missing children episodes) have Social Care involvement?
Yes (all, as we have used our Looked After Children cohort).
5. Do any of the missing children (not missing children episodes) have Youth Justice involvement?
Yes – see below.
Please note we have (only) included all children who have been open to the Youth Justice Service at the start time/date of a missing episode.
(Number of children who have been Missing = 386) Of which have Youth Justice involvement = 33