Our free and confidential helpline is available 7 days a week, from 9am-11pm. It’s here for both people who want to or have gone missing, as well as families and friends who are worrying about someone. You can contact us by text, email or phone, for free and in confidence.
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Ongoing support is available specifically for families and friends who are worrying about a missing person or someone who has been found.
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Information about what it means to be missing, what your rights are and what help there is for you. There is things here which might be helpful to read and organisations which might be of use to you. Â
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Public appeals can help in the search to find a missing person; we can help you to do this.
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If you have lost contact with a family member over time, we might be able to help try to reconnect you with them.
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We offer a specialist support service for young people, parents and carers, who are affected by gang exploitation and county lines.
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Is This Ok? is a free, anonymous, and confidential service, bringing trained professionals together to provide support to young people through a chat service.
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We offer tailored support specifically for young people who are away from home or thinking of leaving.
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Our unique and specialist counselling service supports families and friends who have experience of someone in their life being a missing person.
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The are many emotional impacts of someone going missing.
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There are often lots of practical things to do and understand when someone else goes missing, and when they return.
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Once someone has been reported missing, the police will be busy investigating the disappearance.
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If you would like to capture your or someone else’s individual scent and store it in preparation for a possible disappearance, you can do this using everyday items you can buy or find at home.
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