Government figures show that for the year ending March 31 2007, 950 young people aged under 18 went missing from care in the UK for more than 24 hours. The figure the previous year was 890, with 860 young people going missing in 2005.
Lisa Nandy, chair of the Refugee Children's Consortium and policy adviser at The Children's Society, said she feared some young people had been trafficked. "There's a high possibility that some of these missing young people are being exploited," she said.
Nandy added that it was not just refugee young people who were likely to be trafficked and that The Children's Society had worked with young people born in the UK who were moved around the country.
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