Runaways
Laura's spending Christmas in a children's home
On TV: Runaway: BBC One: Wed 19th Dec 2007 10:40 pm
Runaway featured fifteen year old Laura who has runaway more than 150 times. The programme showed that Laura has been put in care by her family and she continued to runaway and place herself at enormous risk. In the programme staff at the children's home tried to work out what she may have been running away from, or running away to.
Read the text version of Laura's video here.
Inspector Neil Middleham describes the dangers facing young women who run away from care.
Bob Gower explains how agencies in Lancashire are coming together to support and engage with young runaways.