Officials fear right not to send kids to school or tell state they exist could be dangerous

Listen to this episode from The BelTel on Spotify. Northern Ireland’s education system has no idea how many children it’s responsible for and there's no legal requirement for parents to tell education authorities they have a child. Stormont doesn’t know how lots of children are being educated – or whether they’re being educated at all.  Documents show some senior Stormont officials fear these ‘missing children’ are vulnerable to “sexual exploitation”.  The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride has been investigating this story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.