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<p>The Government is committed to protecting all children who go missing and recognises
the specific needs of trafficked children, which is why we have announced a range
of actions to better protect child victims and keep them safe.</p><p>The Government
has committed to expanding Independent Child Traf-ficking Advocates to one third of
all local authorities by April 2019. The Child Trafficking Protection Fund which,
as well as providing victim support and recovery, aims to reduce vulnerability to
exploitation by preventing trafficked children from going missing and potentially
being re-trafficked. In November 2017, the Department for Education published a Safeguarding
Strategy for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children. The Strategy com-missioned
a further 1,000 training places for carers and support workers to equip them with
the skills they need to identify when a child is at risk of going missing and of potentially
being trafficked onwards. The Refugee Council are delivering this training and will
have delivered 1,000 places by the end of March 2019.</p><p><br>The Home Office is
also working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) through the Home Office
National Law Enforcement Data Pro-gramme (NLEDP) to deliver a National Register of
Missing Persons (NRMP). This will enable real time information about police reported
missing persons incidents to be accessed by police forces across England and Wales.
Over time the NRMP will build a national picture of historic missing persons incidents.
This will assist officers when they are looking for, or en-counter a missing person,
particularly if that missing person is outside their home force area. We are currently
working towards the NRMP to be in use operationally in 2020/2021.</p>
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