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Out-of-home care kids overrepresented in missing persons data, report finds
Tobias Lindholme was just 11 years old when he was reported as a missing person.
Key points:
- A report has found children aged 13-17 in out-of-home care account for more than 70 per cent of missing youth reports
- The report found 77 per cent of young people who go missing do so more than once
- Indigenous young people make up 34 per cent of young people who go missing
He was living in out-of-home care and said he repeatedly tried to tell carers the placement wasn’t working and he didn’t feel safe.
“It got to the point where we were just screaming into the void,” he said.
So, one afternoon at the park, he and his younger sister decided not to go home.
“And so I just left, hoping that something would change instantly, but knowing that they’d have…
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