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<p>The Home Office does not hold this information.</p><p><br>The NCA Missing Persons
Unit publishes annual statistical data on police reported missing incidents. The most
recent report was published in December 2017 and covered the 20015/16 reporting year.
Data from 37 police forces showed there had been 43,564 incidents of children missing
from care. Of these police forces, 34 returned data on missing individuals, relating
to 10,681 individual children go missing. This data is not broken down further to
types of accommodation.</p><p><br>The Department for Education publishes annual data
from local authorities relating to children looked after in England, which includes
data on incidents of children missing or away from placement without authorisation.
<br>Both reports are available online.</p>
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