Senior family judge hears charity’s urgent bid to have ‘world’s most vulnerable children’ declared wards of court
Lawyers for the home secretary have disclosed to a family court that 66 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children remain missing from just one local authority – Brighton and Hove – after disappearing from a hotel.
At a private hearing in London on Friday, a senior judge said the missing children were falling through the gaps. Justice Nathalie Lieven told the court: “Brighton and Hove is saying ‘they are not our problem’. The secretary of state is saying – [they] ‘are individuals so it’s not me’.” Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has confirmed that the names, dates of birth and nationalities of the children currently missing can be disclosed to the court. This comes after the organisation– an NGO which works on behalf of children in institutional settings – requested the details in order for wardship to be considered.
However, she said, the children have now been awaiting transfer into the system for 19 months. More than 4,600 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been placed in hotels, 440 missing episodes have been recorded, and the total number of highly vulnerable children who remain missing across the country is unknown.
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