90 Asylum Seeker Children Still Missing, Says Minister

The government will make it a “primary focus” to find 90 asylum-seeking children who went missing from Home Office-run hotels, a minister has said. In an update given by Home Office minister Lord Hanson of Flint, of the 472 children who had gone missing from these hotels, 382 were found as of Sept. 26, meaning that 90 are still unaccounted for. “I wish to find the 90 children who are still missing,” Hanson told colleagues in the House of Lords on Wednesday, continuing, “I wish to ensure that we give support to local authorities and the police to do that, and it has to be the primary focus of the Home Office.”...