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Sunak urged to shut down hotels for child asylum-seekers after hundreds go missing
A boy leaves the Sheffield Metropolitan Hotel which was used as accommodation under the Home Office's 'relocation scheme'

CHILDREN and refugee rights charities have called on PM Rishi Sunak to end the “illegal” use of hotels to house unaccompanied minors following revelations that 200 children are missing. 

The groups, which include the NSPCC, Barnardo’s and The Children’s Society, said that they fear the children have been exploited. 

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick admitted earlier this week that 440 child asylum-seekers being accommodated in Home Office hotels along the south coast had gone missing over the past 18 months, with only half being found. 

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