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Charity Missing People warns these children are at particular risk of exploitation and calls for more resources to tackle the crisis of the young people who have disappeared

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A vulnerable child was drawn into a county lines drug trafficking gang after authorities failed to act for 10 days following his family’s report that he was missing, a charity has warned.