FOI release

Missing Children and Child Sexual Exploitation

Case reference FOI2026/02053

Received 6 October 2026

Published 3 November 2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you provide the following information for each of the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26: 1. The total number of missing person incidents involving children aged 17 or under recorded by your force. 2. Of those missing person incidents involving children aged 17 or under, the number where a child sexual exploitation (CSE) marker, flag or equivalent vulnerability marker was recorded against the missing person incident. Please provide the figures broken down by financial year. I am seeking aggregate figures only and am not requesting any personal data or information that could identify individual children. If your force does not use a specific CSE marker, please provide the equivalent figure using the closest relevant category or marker available in your systems, and please specify the category used.

Response

See attached.

Documents

• 26-02053.xlsx (9.6 KB)

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