Ms Lorna Kavanagh:

No. We do regular audits, however, and on analysis there is a sense that the profiles of those young people are such that they potentially would be vulnerable to labour exploitation, because they were older boys in the main. That would be a concern. Most of the young people who go missing express an intention to travel on. They may have relatives in the UK but we have no way of finding them unless they contact us and let us know where they are. A lot of them are intercepted in Northern Ireland. Our colleagues in Northern Ireland and ourselves have weekly communication and reporting mechanisms in relation to children who have left our care and who may arrive there.