All seven of the Home Office-run hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are closed, following a legal challenge against the previous government.
The government will make it a “primary focus” to find 90 asylum-seeking children who went missing from Home Office-run hotels, a minister has said.
In an update given by Home Office minister Lord Hanson of Flint, of the 472 children who had gone missing from these hotels, 382 were found as of Sept. 26, meaning that 90 are still unaccounted for.
The minister also confirmed that all seven of the Home Office-run hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were now closed, with six closing in November 2023 and the final one closing in January 2024.
The child hotels were closed following a legal challenge by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) UK against the previous government, with the High Court ruling the accommodation unlawful.
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