Missing Information for Professionals
Missing Children
The below leaflet provides guidance for parents and carers around what to do when their child goes missing. It also gives advice on what to do and how to react when they return home.
Children going missing – Missing People and the NWG
Missing People charity and the NWG network have jointly published a resource to support professionals involved in return interview services after a missing child returns home. The resource provides guidance on how to remain child centred whilst also working with parents, carers and other family members to build up a picture of the child’s life and provide support.
The resource can be accessed here – Centring the child and working with their family network as part of return interviews – Missing People
Why do children run away? – Railway Children
Railway Children is a UK charity who support and intervene with children who pass through railway stations alone or are found alone in the street. Their website provides information around why children run away, what the risks are and how to talk to your child about running away.
Not in Our Community – Missed Me?
Missed Me? is based on real life events and shows the different ways that children and young people can be pushed and pulled into situations of great risk and episodes of going missing.
Missed Me? has been created to help raise awareness of the reasons behind young people going missing and present them as victims rather than perpetrators of crime or the cause of situations including sexual and criminal exploitation.