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CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE WHO GO MISSING. Gill Brown Chief Executive Brighter Futures www.brighter-futures.org.uk. Complex trauma. “Psychological problems and linked patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours which tend to result from prolonged exposure to traumatic experience.” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE WHO GO
MISSINGGill Brown Chief Executive Brighter Futures
www.brighter-futures.org.uk
“Psychological problems and linked patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours which tend to result from prolonged exposure to traumatic experience.”
“Repeated situations in which the individual loses control or is disempowered … from which there is no apparent escape”
Difficulties with personal relationships – avoidant, anxious, mistrust, guilt, self-blame, low self-esteem.
Difficulties regulating emotions – uncontrolled anger and intense emotions, aggression, self-harm, substance misuse, anti-social behaviour links to homelessness.
http://ncb.org.uk/media/476004/young_people_and_complex_trauma_-_final.pdf
Complex trauma
The extent of the problemChildren’s Society estimates up to 100,000 a year.
Children run from a problem.
Children run to somewhere they want to be.
25% are at risk of serious harm.
Links between running away and risk from sexual exploitation, violent crime, gang exploitation drug and alcohol misuse.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-who-run-away-or-go-missing-from-home-or-care
Who is vulnerable?
Children in residential care are at particular risk of going missing and vulnerable to sexual exploitation
Distance from home, family and friends is a key factor for looked after children running away.
Having a sense that they are not being listened to or taken seriously.
Children trafficked from abroad.
Work with missing children
2002 Base 58 support for children being sexually exploited
2011 Pilot with Staffordshire Police interviewing all 12 – 18 year olds who went missing in Stoke on Trent.
Nov 2011 to June 2012
103 individual children and young people referred to the pilot. 69% were female 31% were male 71% were aged between 12-15, 66% of these were female11% had a learning disability or difficulty 75% of all CYP referred were in the care a local authority;- 63% of all CYP referred were in the care of Stoke on Trent Local Authority - 63% lived in independent foster care placements- 37% lived in residential care
CYP placed in Stoke on Trent CYP placed outside Stoke on Trent0
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LA residential care
LA foster care
Independent residential care
Independent foster care
Frequency
83% had a single intervention17% were referred more than once14% were frequently reported missing with a total of 386 episodes prior to the pilot73% required further support from other services
“I have moved to a new care home now and everything is much better. It did help somebody coming out to see me………………… I suppose it was good the Police didn’t come to see me I don’t get loads of questions from my friends then”
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Referrals to Other Services
T3
Base58
Younger Minds
Ruby Girl
CYPS
Savana
MASH
CAMHS
Teenage Pregnancy
Sexual exploitation
Sexual exploitation was the primary reason for children going missing in 25% of cases.
44% had sexual exploitation as a secondary factor
Some young people were at risk from other young people in a care setting
Children and young people said they were more likely to open up to a Base58 worker than a social worker or police officer.
“I’m no longer hanging around with lads that made me run away, taking drugs and drinking”
Supporting disclosure
Identify local hotspots
Identify perpetrators
Support young people to make statements
Support & initiate police investigations
Repeat missing episodes
Cost to police of each missing child investigation £1,044Before pilot 386 episodes
During pilot 72 episodes
Total saving to Police £327,816
Social and emotional impact on young people = immeasurable
“I’ve moved foster placements now and things are much better, it was good that the same person came to see me, it didn’t matter how many times I went missing, Sammi came to see me every time – four in all I think”
Financial impact