Their call comes as the Children’s Society launched a report revealing that the age of young runaways is dropping dramatically, with children as young as eight coming into contact with projects run by the charity.
The Children’s Society’s chief executive Bob Reitemeier said LSCBs must step up their work on runaways now that the national indicator set has been scaled back and councils no longer report to central government about the measures they take to safeguard young runaways.
"We’ve lost the national indicator on young runaways so we have to replace it with renewed effort on working together to make sure that it’s a priority to look at children running away," he said.
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