The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on missing children and adults have launched an inquiry into the safeguarding response to children and young people who go missing from out of area care placements.

The APPG is inviting interested individuals and groups to submit written evidence, please find the terms of reference attached, any submitted evidence will be used to inform the inquiry. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 26 April 2019.

Hannah Chetwynd from the Children’s Society is coordinating this work and would be grateful for any information that you are able to provide.

If you have any questions or if you would like to speak about the inquiry in more depth, over the phone please get in touch with Hannah directly via [email protected] .

Please feel free to pass onto any other colleagues who you think would be interested in responding to this inquiry.