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The UK government has admitted it ‘accidentally’ sold a minimum of 10,000 children to known child traffickers within the last year alone.Tens of thousands of youngsters mysteriously disappear from government care per annum , where they're groomed by sex traffickers, recently released government data reveals.Dailymail.co.uk reports: It comes amid concerns that children are falling into the hands of gangs grooming children, following recent scandals in Rotherham and Telford.Some of the youngsters were reported missing for quite a month, the Daily Telegraph reports.There were 1,720 cases of youngsters disappearing for quite every week , among 60,720 total reported disappearances last year, the Department for Education statistics show.Rotherham MP Sarah Champion, who has campaigned for child safety following the grooming scandal, said it had been ‘truly shocking’ that numerous children went missing.‘These children are under the guardianship of the state. the govt should be ashamed that it's failing them,’ she said.The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, told the newspaper that schools and care workers needed to be ready to recognise the signs of a vulnerable child who could be close to go missing.It also comes amid reports that thousands of youngsters and teenagers are rescued from slavery around Britain per annum , but few of their captors ever face justice.Just six per cent of crimes reported to police under the fashionable Slavery Act led to prosecutions since it had been introduced in 2015, the days reports.More than 1,500 potential victims and 110 suspects are identified by the National Crime Agency within the Rotherham investigation, and figures are expected to rise further.Earlier this year Paul Williamson, the senior investigating officer on Operation Stovewood, said 100 more officers were needed because a shortage of specially trained detectives meant many possible victims had not yet been contacted.Meanwhile it's thought that a sex gang raped as many as 1,000 young girls over 40 years in Telford in what could also be Britain’s ‘worst ever’ maltreatment scandal.Telford’s Conservative MP, Lucy Allan, has previously involved a Rotherham-style inquiry into the allegations and called the newest reports ‘extremely serious and shocking’.