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8th August 2023
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Missing children investigations
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I am currently undertaking a scoping review to find out the answer to the question: ‘Why do children in residential care go missing, and where do they go whilst missing?”
1. I write to request any information that you have on this topic, which may include internal reports or evaluations of the following:
• Innovative practices for dealing with missing children from residential care
• Strategies used to target resources to missing children from residential care
• Spatial behaviour of children who go missing from residential care (i.e., where they go whilst missing)
• Experiences and perceptions of partnership working with children's residential care homes and how this can be (or has been) improved
• Facilitators and barriers to identifying the reasons why children go missing from residential care
• Prevention activities in relation to children who go missing from residential care
• The effectiveness of Return Home Interviews and The Philomena Protocol with children who go missing from residential care in identifying the reasons why they go missing, and where they go whilst missing
We do not have any reports or evaluations. Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership (in Wokingham) publish the missing child procedures: Children Missing from Care, Home and Education (proceduresonline.com)
