UK Borders Bill

I apologise to the Minister but I am having some difficulty in understanding how this will help to achieve his aims, which are very laudable. We all recognise this as a problem, but surely it is far more likely that these children are already being monitored: they should be monitored in the children’s home and they should be monitored by the social worker. But if they are obliged to go to somewhere where they think they might be picked up and taken off to a detention removal centre, is this not, on balance, more likely to make the situation worse than better? In any case, sometimes they will leave of their own volition from the setting they are in—not because someone is taking them away but because they are unhappy with the home or unhappy with their residential childcare worker, and so on. I would appreciate more reassurance from the Minister that this would not be an inadvertent consequence. I apologise for interrupting the Minister but this is a very important point. He has said already that too many children disappear from care at the moment.