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Ask the Expert: Helping runaways

1 min read Youth Work

I am a youth worker with a girl aged 14 who has started to go missing from her foster carer’s home on a regular basis. What can I do?

Young people go missing from care for a plethora of reasons. Not getting on with their foster carers and families, feeling they don’t belong and being bullied are just some of them. Sometimes it is the pull of another young person, the excite­ment of going on the run together, away from care and authority.

However, it is likely to be incredibly risky. Going missing is one of the most immediate indicators of vulnerability to sexual exploitation by older young people and adults.

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