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200 asylum-seeking children have disappeared / British Minister: 176 of them are Albanians

2023-01-23 23:06:55Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
200 asylum-seeking children have disappeared / British Minister: 176 of them are
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A British minister has admitted that two hundred asylum-seeking children who were housed in hotels run by the Home Office have disappeared. According to him, 13 children under the age of 16 have been lost and a large part of the lost children are Albanians. The news was announced by Home Secretary Simon Murray before the House of Lords.

The revelation comes after the Observer reported that a whistleblower from a Home Office hotel in Brighton had confirmed that several children had been abducted from the road outside the hotel and forced into a car.

The department was warned by the police that the hotel's vulnerable residents, asylum-seeking children who had recently arrived in the UK, most of them on dinghies, without parents or guardians, would be targeted by criminal networks. "The Home Office has no power to stop unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in these hotels and we know that some of them disappear. "Many of them who disappear have been tracked down," the Home Office said. Also, he said that 88% of the 200 children, 176 were of Albanian origin and said that he is hoping that the government will give up the use of hotels for children as soon as possible.

There are six Home Office hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including the one in Brighton. NGOs have repeatedly raised concerns about children going missing from shelters and offered to help the Home Office keep them safe, but the government has rejected these offers. Philip Ishola, chief executive of anti-trafficking charity Love146, which has warned of the dangers of placing unaccompanied children in hotels since the Home Office started using them, said the Home Office rejected its offer to assess a hotel in Brighton.

"This is over a year ago and it was clear then that there were serious concerns about the safety of young people in these hotels. Since then, the Home Office has been warned repeatedly that children are going missing, potentially to be trafficked and exploited, yet these concerns have been ignored,” he said.
Bella Sankey, a Labor councilor in Brighton and Hove, said: “These children need to be found. We also need a full investigation to establish the full extent of political and institutional responsibility for this heinous wrongdoing."

Sussex Police said they arrested two men suspected of human trafficking after children staying at a hotel were seen getting into their car. A spokesman said they had not received any claims of kidnapping.

Since the Home Office began housing asylum seekers in hotels in Brighton and Hove in July 2021, 137 unaccompanied children have been reported missing, the police spokesman said. Of them, 60 have been found and 76 cases remain under investigation


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