Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds

Exclusive: Study sparks new calls for public inquiry into scandal' of missing migrant children in UK

Scores of asylum-seeking children are still missing from the UK's Home Office hotels as a new report reveals that many are likely to have been trafficked.

The most recent figures show that 118 unaccompanied children remain unaccounted for, some as young as 12. The study, released on Wednesday, is the first to conclude that children placed inside the hotels were at increased risk of trafficking", contradicting Home Office claims that the youngsters were not exploited.