You can help us to be a lifeline when someone disappears by becoming a Digital Search Hero or a Safeguarding Briefing Partner.
Safeguarding Briefing Partners are for projects that work with children and/or adults who perform a safeguarding role or aim to increase wellbeing. Examples of Safeguarding Briefing Partners include; hostels, soup kitchens, mental health support services or any agency helping children or adults through a difficult time, including voluntary and statutory organisations. We send briefings to Safeguarding Briefing Partners informing them of a person missing in their area, offering advice and support to both the Safeguarding Briefing Partner and the missing person.
As with our posters, we circulate briefings to areas following information from the police and family members. This means, on occasion, you will receive briefings for people who are missing from other locations or even parts of the country, along with those missing from the local area.
There are times when police tell us that they feel publicity isn’t appropriate for a missing person investigation, but that being able to share information of a missing person around safeguarding organisations would be invaluable to their search and to ensure the missing person is given the right kind of support. We ask our Safeguarding Briefing Partners to only share the briefings they receive about a missing person with their staff and volunteers, to treat them as confidential and not to display them publicly.
We will work with you to give you guidance on how best to support a missing person, and what you can do to help them talk through their options. We’ll never ask you to share information with us about your service users, and there is no requirement to tell Missing People if a missing person is accessing your project. Find out more about our Safeguarding Briefing Partner network.
If you would like to use your business to help reunite more missing people with their families, please send us your details and we will be in touch to register you.
Sign up to become a partnerBy joining the community of Digital Search Heroes, you will help us to be there online and in your local community. Sharing appeals online and being the eyes and ears for Missing People can make a real difference in the search for someone.
It is free to join and you can unsubscribe at any time. Your support will mean so much to missing people and their loved ones.
If you’re an individual looking to share posters in your area, sign up below to become a Digital Search Hero.
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