Almost 5,000 children  - including babies - have disappeared from council care in the past two years, new figures have revealed. Nineteen babies have vanished for months at a time, and one infant - just a few months old - has still not been found two years later. The figures have been unveiled under a freedom of information request. They show that 4,852 looked-after children were reported missing between January 2012 and December 2013, the Sunday Times reports. There were 24,320 cases logged - as many disappeared more than once. The large majority were teenagers but dozens of those who disappeared were between four and nine years old. The number includes a one-year-old girl missing since July 2013. [Full article]