Missing People

Roebuck House
284 Upper Richmond Road West
London
SW14 7JE

Tel (general enquiries): 0500 700 700
Tel (message home): 0800 700 740
Tel (runaway helpline): 0808 800 7070
All telephone numbers are 24 hour freephone helplines.
Web: www.missingpeople.org.uk

Missing People is the UK's only charity that works with young runaways, missing and unidentified people, their families and others who care for them. The charity provides:

• A national 24-hour helpline for people who are missing someone.
• Support, advice and guidance, and practical help to families of missing people.
• Publicity in the media: on TV, newspapers, radio and other media, including Teletext and MoMedia plasma screens on buses for missing people.
• A confidential national computerised register of missing people.

As well as actively searching for missing people and supporting those who are trying to find them, the charity offers three other services; Message Home (for missing adults), Runaway Helpline (for young runaways) and Identification (helping to resolve cases of unidentified people).

Message Home
This is a unique confidential service run by the charity offering help, advice and support to adults who are missing. It helps people contact their family or carers via a message or three-way call. Often people who have left home or run away find it hard to make direct contact with their family or carers; Message Home gives them the opportunity to take the first step, whilst reassuring those left behind that they are safe.

Runaway Helpline
This a telephone, text and email service for runaways operated by the charity, offering help and advice to young people who have run away from home or care, or who have been forced to leave. If appropriate, Runaway Helpline can help young people to contact their family, carer, a support agency (such as social services or a young person's project), or help them to find a place of safety.

Identification
This is a specialist service offered to support police, coroners, hospitals and social services to resolve cases of unidentified people (alive or dead).