Further to this investigation, essentially carried out through interviews with approximately 90 professionals in charge, the following observations can be made: 1. the disappearance of children from institutions is not a marginal or rare phenomenon: it is a variable but significant percentage of a given population which can reach 50% depending on the institutions or countries concerned; 2. the phenomenon is known at local and regional levels, but the publication of consolidated national statistics is non-existent in the contexts which we investigated; 3. the different criteria at local and regional levels for taking minors into care and supporting them, that fact that the services concerned operate in isolation, as well as the variety of terms used (disappearances, running away, departure without forwarding address etc.), do not make it easy to determine the scope and seriousness of the phenomenon; 4. some of the people in charge of institutions consider the term disappearance to be inappropriate, as for some this would call for the initiation of a judicial investigation; a very small minority of these people consider the disappearance to be simply the minor’s free choice; 5. some other people in charge of institutions recognize their direct professional responsibility in the phenomenon which they consider to be even more serious as they realize their helplessness regarding its reduction; (…)

 

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