Local authorities are unwittingly becoming "recruiting sergeants" for drugs gangs, by sending thousands of children in care in England to live outside their home area, a report finds.
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The All Party Parliamentary Group for Missing Children says 6 in every 10 children in care homes are sent to live away from their own local area. It says these placements escalate the risk of children being exploited and has called on the government to "slash the number" of sent-away children.

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

The report follows Newsnight’s special series of reports - Britain’s Hidden Children’s Homes – on the unregulated accommodation being used to house older children, aged 16 plus.
Our UK editor Katie Razzall went to North Wales to hear from someone running one of these homes.

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