The message came from Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Spindler, head of the child protection command at Scotland Yard, who was introducing preliminary results of a three-month operation to monitor the destinations of unaccompanied children arriving at Heathrow Airport.
Operation Paladin, a partnership with social workers, the immigration service and the NSPCC, will lead to a report to ministers later this month, which is likely to recommend new procedures for registering and following up children who arrive alone from abroad.
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