Scottish National Missing Persons Framework Good Practice Free Conference

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Join Missing People for our 6th annual conference for professionals in Scotland, in partnership with Police Scotland and Scottish Government.

Tuesday 3rd March 2026 9:30am-4pm

Cosla 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh EH12 5BH

Missing People is the only charity in the UK specialising in providing guidance and support to professionals and missing people and their families.  Since July 2019, the charity has been delivering a programme of consultancy, training and good practice sharing to support Scottish Government’s work for the effective implementation of The National Missing Persons Framework across local areas.

Missing People have been working with multi-agency professionals across Scotland to identify existing good practice for missing adults, children, and their families. This conference will showcase elements of this practice from local areas, in line with the new, updated National Missing Persons Framework.

The conference will:

  • Increase professionals’ understanding of good and innovative practice for reducing harm related to missing
  • Provide an opportunity to discuss the benefits and challenges of multi-agency responses to missing people and their families
  • Address current issues and trends relating to missing across Scotland
  • Create an opportunity to network with professionals from police, local authority, health, and education across Scotland

This conference will include speakers from agencies across Scotland, our divisional partners and those with lived experience of missing in Scotland.

The event is free to attend, and you can sign up below.

Agenda

Agenda will include:

  • Lived Experience from those who have been missing and their loved ones
  • Minister for Victims and Community Safety Siobhian Brown
  • Police Scotland National Missing Persons Unit – Update on missing in Scotland
  • Implementing Return Discussions across services in Dumfries and Galloway – Police Scotland
  • Workshop on Missing and Stigma – Delivered by Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs
  • Workshop on a safer return for people living with dementia who go missing – Delivered by Alzheimer Scotland
  • Developing a Missing Person Protocol – Insights from East Renfrewshire
  • The launch of Missing People’s Safecall Service for the children and young people

And more to be updated 

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