Children Reported Missing ad other Incidents

1. How many individual children (those aged 0 - 17) were reported missing in your local authority area?



2. How many missing incidents were reported in relation to those missing children (those aged 0 - 17)?



3. How many of those missing incidents had a:

a. Sexual exploitation marker

b. Mental health marker

c. Criminal exploitation marker

d. Trafficking marker



4. In how many of those incidents was a return home interview completed?



5. In how many of those return home interviews was there evidence of harm having occurred?



6. In how many of those return home interviews with evidence of harm, was the harm:

a. Physical

b. Sexual

c. Self-harm

d. Suicide

e. Emotional / psychological



7. If you routinely record another type of risk marker / type of harm that is not listed here, please also include that information and the number of incidents in which it was recorded

1. 660 (Lincolnshire Children – including those children placed in other authorities)

634 (Reported missing in our local authority)

2. 1594 (Lincolnshire Children – including those children placed in other authorities)

1471 (Reported missing in our local authority)

Lincolnshire Children – including those children placed in other authorities  

3. How many of those missing incidents had a:
a. Sexual exploitation marker - 134
b. Mental health marker - 347
c. Criminal exploitation marker - 114
d. Trafficking marker - 51

Reported missing in our local authority  

3. How many of those missing incidents had a:
a. Sexual exploitation marker - 101
b. Mental health marker - 312
c. Criminal exploitation marker - 111
d. Trafficking marker - 34

4. Lincolnshire Children – including those children placed in other authorities  - 830 (RHIs completed, a further 380 were recorded as “missing again” which will have been completed within subsequent RHIs. The remaining incidents were not completed due to being children placed in Lincolnshire by another Local Authority, declined by the child, a visitor to Lincolnshire, under the age of 10 or withdrawn)

Reported missing in our local authority - 768 (RHIs completed, a further 331 were recorded as “missing again” which will have been completed within subsequent RHIs. The remaining incidents were not completed due to being children placed in Lincolnshire by another Local Authority, declined by the child, a visitor to Lincolnshire, under the age of 10 or withdrawn)

5-7. Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information 2000 does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is currently £450 or 18 hours at a cost of £25 per hour.

The exemption under section 12 is not subject to the public interest test