UK minister admits 200 asylum-seeking children have gone missing

Lord Simon Murray admits in the House of Lords that 200 asylum-seeking children have gone missing after they were placed in hostels run by the Home Office. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► ’Many of them that go missing are subsequently traced,’ Lord Murray said. Answering a question from the Liberal Democrat peer Paul Scriven, the Home Office minister said that ’it would be wrong to make generalisations regarding the reason’ the minors go missing, after the suggestion that some of them were abducted by traffickers. The disclosure came after the Observer reported that a whistleblower from a Home Office hostel in Brighton had claimed that some children had been abducted outside the hotel and bundled into cars, The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► Sign up to the Guardian’s free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► Website ► Facebook ► Twitter ► Instagram ► The Guardian on YouTube: The Guardian ► Guardian Australia ► Guardian Football ► Guardian Sport ► #Asylum #Children #HumanTrafficking #Migrants #MigrantCrisis #News