Almost 1,500 children are locked up by the state, at a cost of £300m, but these figures could be much higher due to incomplete data, according to Who Are They? Where Are They? Children Living Behind Closed Doors, published by children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield.
The commissioner's research reveals a messy system which has not tracked around 200 children in the national data, and was only obtained after her office requested it from individual courts, Longfield said.
She added: "There are hundreds of children in England growing up behind closed doors, locked away for their own safety or the safety of others.
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