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[29 October 2007] - Children separated from their parents are being accommodated in sub-standard hostels here according to the Irish Times. It's reported that the HSE admits that the children's asylum centres fail to meet legal health and safety centres. 328 children have disappeared from state care over the past five years with two of those ending up in forced prostitution. The HSE claims that it is implementing plans to upgrade the hostels. Nora Gibbons - from children's charity Barnardos - says the hostel facilities are aiding child trafficking. 'They are open type hostels, children can be missing for many hours and in the reports internationally it shows that these hostels are a prime part of what these child traffickers do. They know they can retrieve the children from the hostels, because they know there isn't proper supervision.'