Ann Coffey

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Local authorities are unknowingly always "recruiting sergeants" for drugs, gangs, the thousands of children living in care outside their home, according to a Report .

These children were "easy victims for predators", Ann Coffey MP, the BBC Newsnight said program.

said the government would "slash The Number of" sent dash away-children.

The government said it was collecting evidence "in order to understand better how" out-of-area placements were used.

The Report shows a 77% increase in The Number of children placed in England, in care homes outside their home council area of 2,250 children in 2012 to 3,990 in the year 2018.

Two-thirds (64%) of children in children's homes, and 41% of all children looked after in England life "out of area".

In some cases, out-of-area " placement in suitable, to ensure that a child is not secured properly.

But, according to The Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) to Runaway and Missing children and adults - children are often sent away", because it is in your best interest, but there are no local internships".

More Than 70% of the 41 police, responded to the request, said the transfer of the children from the environment increases The Risk of exploitation, often in a row, you are forced to go Missing .

Ann Coffey MP said unregulated accommodation for children aged 16 and older "will become magnets for pedophiles and county lines, the drug-gangs,"

Ms Coffey, the Chairman of the APPG, said Newsnight disadvantaged children, had failed.

"in the Midst of the stories of the chronic misery and loneliness, two stand out: one about a boy who tries to get himself to hang on Christmas, and a girl who ran 10 miles to try to come home. "

you said to use isolation from children easier.

"is escalated, The Risk for these children, because of the isolation in a place where you have no friends or business partners," She Said .

"Local councils are unwittingly acting as recruiting sergeants for criminal gangs, who would wish to exploit that child for the separation for criminal purposes. "

your Report States that the local authorities may be accidentally the opening of the new "county-line" operations to sell because the publisher cared for children of heroin and crack can create opportunities for criminals to expand their reach in the rural parts of the country.

'felt It, I was Punished ,'

Samantha, not her real name - was sent from the North of England children's homes in Scotland and Wales, at the age of 14, after she sexually abused.

"It felt like I was Punished in a way. I was taken from My Family and in the care and I was now somewhere that I don't want to be," she told Newsnight.

"Everything I was raised to know, in the 14 years of life in my home was now gone. "

Samantha was moved with the intention of your safe, but the abuse continued.

"I believe that care homes are targeted by pedophiles and slopes, because they know, as sad as it is, out-of-area" children are not the easiest kind of child to, because you have nobody and that's how they get you," She Said .

The Report also explores "The Frightening twilight world" of unregulated semi-independent flats for older children, at the age of 16 plus.

Newsnight, it was examined how this sector as part of its series.

This type of accommodation is not controlled by, or recognised by Ofsted. Local authorities can pay for children in non-registered accommodation, if it is in a child's well-being.

Newsnight showed, according to the Ministry of education, lived in this kind of accommodation, with up to 70% of 2,900 10 years.

The Report calls for the regulation and control of this property and calls for an emergency action plan by the government to slash The Number of out-of-area placements, the "do not keep children safe line".

The Association of Directors of Children's Services, said: "There is a national shortage of care nurses, and a growing gap between the location of residential homes for children and must. "

The government said it was working with the sector and Ofsted "to deal with all the problems that you are experiencing the bad practice, where is".

"We will continue to improve how local areas respond if a child lost in the care and help local areas to tackle, to fight the risks of vulnerable Young People , such as the exploitation of "county lines' gangs, by our £2m national programme," added an official.

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