{"id":438157,"date":"2025-09-20T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438157\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:52:36","slug":"northern-irelands-missing-children-for-years-officials-have-known-of-a-huge-problem-and-fear-kids-could-be-sexually-abused-but-still-havent-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438157\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s missing children: For years, officials have known of a huge problem and fear\u00a0kids could be sexually abused \u2013\u00a0but still haven\u2019t fixed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Department attempted to censor figure showing huge gulf between children registered with GPs and those registered for education \u2013 but it failed to black it out and we can now report it\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland figures\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3df572c8-3243-496b-9cb2-01643d2bd78a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Northern Ireland figures<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For years, the Department of Education has known that it has no idea where lots of children are, prompting growing concern among senior officials and fears that they could be \u201csexually exploited\u201d, documents seen by the Belfast Telegraph reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Civil servants admitted that basic sharing of information between various Stormont departments isn\u2019t happening \u2013 supposedly because of data protection laws, even though those laws make clear data can be shared where it is necessary to safeguard a child\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Department attempted to censor figure showing huge gulf between children registered with GPs and those registered for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[60801,148389,1144,148390,64806,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-438157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-education","9":"tag-michelle-guy","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-civil-service","12":"tag-paul-givan","13":"tag-sam-mcbride","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115235779844663079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}