I am writing to you formally and on the public record regarding a matter of national and international concern. Evidence held across multiple government departments now confirms that more than 430,000 Child Trust Fund beneficiaries cannot be located, contacted, or accounted for. This failure directly relates to the disappearance of my daughter, Emily, whose records were falsified, duplicated, or corrupted within government systems. I am requesting immediate acknowledgment and clarification from your office, as this situation represents a systemic safeguarding collapse comparable in scale to the Horizon scandal, with profound implications for child protection, financial governance, and state accountability.

Subject: 430,000 Missing Child Trust Fund Beneficiaries and the Case of Emily

I am placing this statement on the public record.

Evidence now shows that over 430,000 children who should have received their Child Trust Funds have not been located by the UK Government. These young people — including my own daughter, Emily — were never contacted, never paid, and in many cases cannot be found at all.

The scale of this failure raises a serious and urgent question:
How does a government “lose” nearly half a million children?

I allege that these children have, in effect, been abducted by systemic failure. They are missing from education records, social-care records, safeguarding systems, and even citizenship documentation — and many were unlawfully moved far from their family home. Their Child Trust Fund accounts remain dormant, unpaid, or misassigned.

In Emily’s case, the records prove she was never present in the jurisdiction where authorities claimed she was held, yet court orders and placement files were created as if she were. The same pattern is appearing across this wider group of 430,000 missing CTF young people.

The Government’s internal software systems — which appear as unstable as Fujitsu’s Horizon, now infamous for destroying lives — are not fit for purpose. Data is missing, duplicated, corrupted, or falsely assigned, and the Department for Education has already confirmed record inconsistencies.

This is not an administrative error.
This is institutional negligence on a national scale, affecting hundreds of thousands of children.

I am calling for:

• A public inquiry into the 430,000 unaccounted-for CTF children
• Full disclosure of system architecture and failures
• Independent investigation into Emily’s disappearance
• Immediate safeguarding reviews across all affected Local Authorities

Until the Government can prove otherwise, the public is entitled to ask whether these failures amount to a systemic abduction of children through data corruption, mismanagement, and unlawful removal.

CC:
foi-team+canned.response@cabinetoffice.gov.uk;
contactOCMC@justice.gov.uk;
AlistairHunt2@eversheds-sutherland.com;
Louise.Bowery@cases.financial-ombudsman.org.uk;
William.Moore@ombudsman.org.uk;
icocasework@ico.org.uk;
info@ibac.vic.gov.au;
enquiries@ovic.vic.gov.au;
standardscommissioner@parliament.uk;
standards@parliament.uk;
foi.officer@lgo.org.uk;
M.Cashmore@coinweb.lgo.org.uk;
grc@justice.gov.uk

Warm regards,
Martin Newbold
 http://www.martinnewbold.co.uk
 www.thestealingofemily.co.uk

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