The most vulnerable children on earth are being kidnapped British soil – why don’t we care? ✒️ IanDunt for ipaperviews
None of it made any difference. Last October, official figures showed 220 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were missing from hotels funded by the Home Office. Seventeen of them disappeared within a day of arriving at the accommodation.
Part of the reason the kidnappings are so hard to address is because the asylum hotel system exists in a legislative twilight zone outside of the normal rules of child protection. Local authorities are supposed to be responsible for keeping kids safe, under long-standing legal norms. But that system fell into chaos when the Home Office took ownership by placing the children in hotels under its management.
And the reason for that, as ever, is that we don’t really care. We don’t care enough to listen to warnings. We don’t care enough to put proper safeguarding arrangements in place, or to even establish a clear legal framework. And when the inevitable happens, and the most vulnerable children on earth are kidnapped on British soil, we don’t even care enough to treat it like headline news. It’s just another news-in-brief, lucky to make it into the final items of a broadcast.
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