Specialist consultancy, training and local services

Our team of expert consultants can work with you to help tackle local professional challenges when responding to missing adults and children, and their families. Last year, we shared our expertise with over 4,000 multi-agency professionals across the UK through bespoke consultancy and training, conferences, multi-agency workshops and e-learning packages, grounded in the experiences of people who are affected by missing. We work with police, local authority leads and front-line local authority practitioners, Health, Education, and the voluntary sector.

What we can help with

Reduce local numbers of repeat missing incidents, and the harm linked to missing
Build on local, multi-agency policies and protocols to effectively respond to and support missing persons and their families
Increase local skills and knowledge to improve the impact of missing response and support services
Develop and build on good practice, informed by insight from across the UK
Provide a voice for missing persons and their families

What it might look like

Developing effective local, multi-agency responses to missing persons through reviewing local protocols and policies compared to good practice, and running workshops to clarify agencies’ roles and responsibilities
Delivering effective safeguarding and support to reduce the harm linked to missing incidents through mapping local service provision, identifying gaps and working with you to identify local solutions
Improving local professional, multi-agency knowledge of missing and related issues such as Child Criminal Exploitation, County Lines, Child Sexual Exploitation, mental health, and trafficking through e-learning, training workshops or seminars
Improving skills and increasing local impact to deliver effective Return Home Interviews, Prevention Interviews/Safe and Well Checks through e-learning, training workshops, and webinars.

Training topics

Missing Children
Child Exploitation
Missing Adults
Conducting effective Return Home Interviews (England & Wales)
Conducting effective Return Discussions (Scotland)
Conducting effective Safe and Well Checks
Responding to children missing from care

All consultancy and training services can be designed in partnership to best fit the needs of your organisation, and local area.

Journey Mapping

Each year nearly 85,000 adults are reported missing in over 110,000 incidents across England. Journey mapping is designed to focus on missing person personal profiles to able you and your organisation to effectively achieve:

Clarity on local multi-agency roles, responsibilities, process, and procedure along the missing person’s journey, and to clarify process and procedure followed by partners when supporting the missing person and their family.
Clearer individual and partnership responsibility regarding ownership of missing person cases.
Strengthened relationships with local partners in terms of problem solving.

Local services: Support on a missing person’s return

Our team can work with you to tailor a front-line operational service to meet the needs of your local missing children, young people and adults when they return. For adults, this could be a Prevention Interview (Safe and Well Check) service for immediate safeguarding and support on a person’s return. Our Return Home Interview, and 121 Intensive Support services have a proven track record in reducing missing episodes through effective safeguarding and support for the children and young people at highest risk of harm, including those who have been reported missing frequently. We have a person-centred approach, and our independent support workers can provide time and space to build trust, support disclosures and help access specialist support a missing person may need. All our services will work in partnership with local police, local authorities, and existing operational structures for preventing, responding to, and supporting local missing adults, children, young people and their families.

Contact us

Contact our team for more information.