Revealed: 66 children still missing from just one UK local authority after vanishing from asylum hotel

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Lawyers for the home secretary have disclosed to a family court that 66 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children remain missing from just one local authority – Brighton and Hove – after disappearing from a hotel.

The number was revealed at an urgent hearing to address the fact that no agency has parental responsibility for the missing youngsters.