David Cameron has appealed to schools to help prevent young people from joining Islamic State as authorities face questions over the disappearance of three schoolgirls feared to have travelled to Syria.
Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 and a third 15-year-old girl, who has not been named, were last seen on Tuesday morning as they left their homes in East London, telling their families they would be out for the day.
Instead they met and travelled to Gatwick airport before boarding a Turkish Airlines flight, which landed at Istanbul that evening.
The Prime Minister said their disappearance is "deeply concerning," stressing that authorities will do "everything we can to help these girls."
However he said their case proves the fight against Islamist extremist terror is "not just one that we can wage by the police and border control."
"It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognise they have a role to play," he said.
"We all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult."
Earlier the Metropolitan Police revealed the three girls were questioned by officers in December as part of a "routine inquiry" after one of their classmates, also 15, travelled to the Syria.
According to The Times none of the three were subsequently monitored by counterterrorism police.
It was only when their families raised the alarm that authorities discovered the girls had fled the country, the paper has claimed.
Sky News has also uncovered a tweet sent from Shamima Begum's Twitter account two days earlier, asking a friend already in Syria to follow her so they can start messaging privately.
The friend is understood to be a former private school pupil from Glasgow who travelled to Syria to marry a fighter.
In a statement the Metropolitan Police said they found "nothing" in December to indicate the girls were likely to flee.
"There was nothing to suggest at the time that the girls themselves were at risk and indeed their disappearance has come as a great surprise, not least to their own families," the statement said.
Turkish Airlines reportedly did not notify authorities that the girls had boarded the flight to Turkey - a known stop for would-be jihadists travelling to Syria.
Questions have now been raised over how the girls - who attended the Bethnal Green Academy school and were described as "straight-A students" - were able to leave the UK so easily.
Former Metropolitan Police border control officer Chris Hobbs told Sky News that checks for people departing from UK airports made it a "walk in the park for jihadis and girls like this" to leave.
"At the moment you go through security, you get on the plane, you might be checked by a private security guard," he said.
"Unless you're very unlucky you won't pass under the eyes of anyone from UK law enforcement.
"If you're on a watch list then you will ping the system. If you're not on the radar then the odds are you will get on the plane without too many problems."
The number of Westerners who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join IS is thought to be about 3,000, including as many as 550 women, according to the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
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Gallery: Schoolgirls May Have Gone To Syria
Scotland Yard are trying to trace three teenage girls from the same East London school who are believed to have run off to Syria
CCTV captured images of the girls at Gatwick Airport
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