Hundreds of trafficking victims in UK missing after referral to support scheme

Home Office data shows 566 people were categorised as missing between 2020 and 2022

Hundreds of trafficking victims in the UK have gone missing after being referred to the government's scheme to protect them, the Guardian has learned.

The news comes after the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, admitted in January that since 2021 about 200 child asylum seekers had gone missing from hotels where they had been in the care of the Home Office and its contractors.