Refugee, runaway and homeless children

Guidance to stop children going missing, care of unaccompanied and trafficked children.

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Guidance and regulation

• Children who run away or go missing from home or care
  • Statutory guidance
  • 24 January 2014
  • Department for Education
• Provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds who may be homeless and/or require accommodation
  • Statutory guidance
  • 30 April 2018
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery
  • Statutory guidance
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
• Homelessness: applying All Our Health
  • Guidance
  • 6 June 2019
  • Closed organisation: Public Health England

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News and communications

• UN Human Rights Council 58: UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Sale, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children in Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Contexts
  • 14 March 2025
  • World news story
• Homeless children need better information and independent advocacy to help understand their rights
  • 25 February 2025
  • Ofsted
  • Press release
• Preventing homelessness through early intervention mediation
  • 5 November 2018
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Case study

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Research and statistics

• Good decisions: supporting children aged 16 and 17 who need help when they are homeless
  • 25 February 2025
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Support for non-EEA migrant child victims of modern slavery
  • 19 December 2017
  • Department for Education and Home Office
  • Research
• Missing children
  • 8 February 2013
  • Ofsted
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Care of unaccompanied and trafficked children
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 17 March 2017
• Safeguarding unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Ofsted