The way the Home Office treats migrant children is a "free gift to traffickers" - while its approach to missing kids shows "casual racism", two former commissioners warn in a scathing intervention.
Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers.
In a powerful joint letter they asked where the outrage was about suggestions the children didn't matter because they entered the country illegally.
