Missing People (formerly the National Missing Persons Helpline) is a UK charity dedicated to helping missing people and supporting their families. You can access:
1. A national 24 hour helpline for people who are missing someone.
2. A confidential national computerised register of missing people.
3. Advice, guidance and practical help to families of missing people.
4. A 24 hour confidential helpline for people who have left home and wish to get in contact.
5. Profiles of missing people.
You can contact the 24 hour confidential freephone helpline on 0500 700 700.
Missing People website
The Missing People Runaway Helpline is dedicated to children and young people under the age of 18 who have run away from home or care, or who have been forced to leave home. You can phone them on 0808 800 70 70 and get advice and information to support and enable you to make a decision about what you want to do next.
Runaway helpline
| The Salvation Army Family Tracing Service:
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The Salvation Army Family Tracing Service helps to find relatives over the age of 18. You can contact them on 0845 634 4747.
Salvation Army's family tracing service
| The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) Missing Persons Bureau:
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The NPIA Missing Persons Bureau (MPB) helps the police in their missing people investigations by maintaining records of missing and unidentified people. If you are missing and want your family to know you are safe but don't want them to know where you are, you can contact the Missing Persons Bureau.
The MPB also manage and co-ordinate the Child Rescue Alert service and the Missing Kids website, designed to assist missing children investigations.
NPIA Missing Persons Bureau
Missing Kids
"Cyndi's List" provides links to a large number of other sites concerned with locating missing people.
Cyndi's list
"Missing You" allows you to post a message on the site and read others.
Missing you website
The "look4them" website provides a service by eight UK organisations involved in tracing missing persons.
Look for them website
Out in the cold
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