Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in Care 2016 - 2020 - Find a freedom of information request

1. a) What is the total number of asylum seeking children (UASCs) the council has had in its care between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2020 inclusive? ie. the total number of UASCs the council had in its care at any point during these years.

b) If possible please break this figure down by calendar year. ie. How many individual UASCs did the council care for at some point in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020?

2. What were the nationalities/country of origin of the children in question 1a? And how many UASCs of each nationality/country of origin did the council care for?

3. Of the children in question 1a, how many have gone missing and not yet been found?

4. In which years did the children in question 3. go missing and how many went missing in each year?

5. What were the nationalities/country of origin of the children in question 3? And how many missing UASCs of each nationality/country of origin are there? (For the whole five year period, not broken down by year)

6 . What were the ages of the children in question 3? And how many children of each age are there? (For the whole five year period, not broken down by year)

1a. 146

b.

2.

3. 1

4. 2017 - 1

5. Vietnamese - 1

6. Age -16   Amount - 1