The Howard League for Penal Reform is calling for a government review of how police forces record information on the topic, after analysis identified potential missed opportunities to help rather than criminalise children.
The report, Know your numbers: Using data to monitor and address criminalisation, analyses the results of freedom of information (FoI) requests sent to all 43 police forces in England and Wales.
The charity asked police to report on callouts to Ofsted-registered homes between 2012 and 2018, broken down by missing incidents, alleged crimes, and safeguarding issues.
Results from the 26 areas that responded, reveal how some homes do not call the police at all, while others pick up the phone repeatedly and sometimes for matters that would not involve police if they happened in the family home.
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