The number of people who have gone missing from residential care in London, UK rose 34% from 2013 to 2017, according to this article from BBC News. The police handled 17,000 missing from care reports in 2017, says the article. This number includes both children in foster care homes as well as adults in nursing homes or residential care. The charity Missing People has expressed concern over this rise in missing from care cases, saying that those who go missing are "high risk of harm". "Teenagers" says the article, "make up the largest age group of people who are reported missing in London, figures show." "Nearly 5,000 teenagers were recorded as missing in the first two months of 2018. More than half of them were in care."