I was in my care home a semi-independent
place and a car come up on the drive
didn't know who it was and then a bag
over my head got flung in the beat got
taken to a random house I in the country
got friends part of my face got
waterboarded got stripped got beaten I
was stabbed once in my shoulder twice in
my life when I got let go I was laying
on the road dying kidnapped while in
care he's 17 and has been in care since
the age of five for the past two years
he's been living in unregulated homes
most weeks he goes missing often to sell
drugs I was gone missing every day for
that months on end did the unregulated
home have your phone number yeah were
they ringing you how easy was it for you
to get involved in county lines drug
dealing easy he was repeatedly exploited
by drug gangs I'll be at one place
they'll take me to another place to sell
heroin yeah okay why didn't you say no
they said if you say no you're gonna get
killed or your family's getting killed
our figures indicates the number of
times young people have gone missing
from unregulated homes has more than
doubled in the last three years all the
money I got from doing it I was using it
to get home this teenager who sent
hundreds of miles away to North Wales
there was no family around me I had no
friends everyone was coming up to me
because they knew I went from the area
can you do this frost can you do that
two months in being there I lost my mom
when I lost my mom they didn't try
arrange to go to a funeral so I didn't
get to go to my once you know the care
system made new social services and the
government made me just feel like I
didn't want to be around normal did you
try and take your life I've tried a
couple times what was going through your
mind that I want to see my mum for a
last time and I could guide this world
where no one cares about me
I was on the top of it this is the most
reported missing list I was going
missing every day these times do have a
me
clutching like my mates or I'll be in a
next County hundreds of miles away just
sitting in a crack den doing laughs all
wrong for doing it all wrong we've
estimated last year police forces spent
at least 50 million pounds searching for
missing children in care
this child is 60 after years in care he
moved into unregulated homes some were
surrounded by drugs and violence the
waters before there was this close glass
cause the drug use smart my whole Road
was a drug hotspot so surround about
Niki's and flax crackers all day long
you want to come home to a safe place
you want to be comfortable in your hole
minute you don't be sitting on thinking
I'm not gonna get robbed it really
mentally because it put me out of the
roadside I'm a brat in I've been Apes
which everybody knows like it's which
southampton air was breathing I mean
have ripple he says he now sells drugs
across the country I'm not like other
people
I was making just enough to scrape back
so I can give my mom a little piece here
and there those men who were sending you
all over the country why don't you say
no to them if I say no I'm gonna have
nothing to eat when I get home I'm gonna
have no credits call my mom if I say no
these people they can find another new
in a care home who's gonna do exactly
what they wanted to do it's not probably
for them we've been told these pictures
show young people in unregulated homes
with weapons and drugs we found out more
than 50 people was sexually abused or
exploited after going missing last year
our information requests also revealed
that around one in six missing episodes
features a young person already known to
be at risk of child sexual exploitation
what should happen to these homes beans
be watched mornings have inspectors and
professional people who actually know
what they're doing going in there
checking their and regulating the thing
if I'm you can be running a full on
crack operation in a care home and
wouldn't no one know anything I think
being in care would give me some sort of
childhood
they're saying that they're there to
support you it's a lie it's a recruiting
game they're gonna put kids into homes
they're gonna get recruited
the thing stuff gonna keep going on
there are more than 5000 vulnerable
children and young people living in
unregulated homes across England and
Wales tonight on average 30 will go
missing often unseen and unheard there
Thomas
BBC News