International Reports

Background Studies regarding Child Snatching, Forced Adoptions & Child Sexual Exploitation

UK: National Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups

• January 2012
  • http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/inquiry-child-sexual-exploitation-gangs-and-groups
  • http://www.maranathacommunity.org.uk/pdf/jan12-satanist-ritual-abuse-of-children.pdf

UK: APPG [All Party Parliamentary Group] for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults and the APPG for Looked After Children and Care Leavers

• June 2012
  • http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/u32/joint_appg_inquiry_-_report…pdf

Council of Europe: Human rights and family courts

• October 2008
  • http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=12037&lang=en
• November 2012
  • http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=19190&lang=en

UN: Committee on the Rights of the Child

• July 2014
  • http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=CRC/C/OPSC/GBR/CO/1

Council of Europe: When is it ok to remove a child?

• Jan 2015
  • http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=5397&

Council of Europe: Social Services in Europe: legislation and practice of the removal of children from their families in Council of Europe member States

• March 2015
  • http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-DocDetails-EN.asp?FileID=21567&lang=EN

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Channel IV: Thousands of Children in Care disappear each year

• May 2014
  • http://www.channel4.com/news/missing-children-care-homes-foi-babies

The Times: Alarm raised as 19 babies vanish from council care

• June 2014
  • http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1420225.ece

Independent: Major study reveals true scale of abuse of children living in care

• July 2014
  • http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/major-study-reveals-true-scale-of-abuse-of-children-living-in-care-9587244.html

Community Care: We are essentially powerless to protect children who go missing from care

• June 2016
  • http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/06/07/essentially-powerless-protect-children-go-missing-care/?cmpid=NLC|SCSC|SCDDB-2016-0607

POLITICIANS

• Tomas Zdechovsky MEP for the Czech Republic
  • February 2016 Children Removed without Advance Warning
  • 46,058 children were in ‘care’ in 2014, in Norway.