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MissingPeople
0500 700 700. 24 Hour Confidential Hotline
MissingKids
www.missingkids.co.uk
The UK Missing Kids Website is a unique, state-of-the art tool designed to
help the police recover missing and abducted children. It is a partnership
between the Police, charities, and the private sector.
Missing Children Europe
www.missingchildreneurope.eu
Missing Children Europe is the European Federation for Missing and Sexually
Exploited Children. We represent 21 NGOs active in the combat against the
disappearance and sexual exploitation of children, working in 15 countries
of the European Union.
RUNAWAY HELPLINE
0808 800 70 70 - 24 hrs
MESSAGE HOME
0800 700 740 - 24hrs
www.missingpeople.org.uk/messagehome
A unique confidential service run by the charity Missing People offering
help, advice and support to adults who are missing. Message Home is a 24
hour Freefone service that helps people contact their family or carers via a
message or three-way call.
CHILDLINE
0800 11 11 - 24hrs
www.childline.org.uk
Gives comfort, advice and protection to children and young people up to
18yrs who are worried about any problem.
SHELTERLINE
0808 800 4444 - 24hrs
www.shelter.org.uk/getadvice
Telephone advice and information for people with a housing problem or who
are homeless. Issues dealt with include housing rights, harassment, problems
with tenancies, illegal eviction, rent and mortgage arrears, housing
benefit, domestic violence, hostel placements, finding accommodation.
GET CONNECTED
0808 808 4994 - 1pm-11pm
www.getconnected.org.uk
Will find the best place or organisation in the U.K that can help a young
person, whatever their problem. The helpline can also provide a free
connection to the most appropriate service.
NSPCC
0808 800 5000 - 24hrs
www.nspcc.org.uk
This is a child protection helpline. It provides counselling, information
and advice to children at risk of being abused, or to anyone concerned about
a child at risk of being abused. Text phone (for people with hearing
impairments) 0800 056 0566
SAMARITANS
08457 90 90 90 - 24hrs
www.samaritans.org.uk
Provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing
feelings of distress or despair, including those that may lead to suicide.
BROOK
0800 0185 023 - Mon-Fri 9-5
www.brook.org.uk
This helpline provides free and confidential advice on sexual health,
contraception, pregnancy testing, abortion and counselling through a network
of centres. The service also provides support, information and details of
local Brook services.
WHO CARES?
0500 564 570 - Mon, Wed, Thur 3:30-6pm
www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk
Offers free and confidential support and information to children and young
people who are in Care or have left Care.
FRANK
0800 77 66 00 - 10am -10pm
www.talktofrank.com
Provides free and confidential and help to anyone concerned or affected by
drugs, or solvent misuse.
SEXWISE
0800 28 29 30 - 7am - 12 midnight
www.ruthinking.co.uk
This helpline is for young people under 18 who need advice about sex
relations or contraception. The call is free and confidential. Text phone
(for people with hearing impairments) 0800 328 1651.
SANELINE
0845 767 8000 1pm to 11pm every day
www.sane.org.uk
This replaces the existing hours of 12pm to 11pm on weekdays, and 12pm to
6pm at weekends. SANEline aim to provide information and emotional support
to those experiencing mental health problems, their families and carers.
YOUNGMINDS
www.youngminds.org.uk
YoungMinds is
the UK's leading charity committed to improving the emotional well being and
mental health of children and young people.
YoungMinds Parents Helpline- www.youngminds.org.uk/parents
for any adult concerned about the emotions or behaviour of a child or
young person. We talk to thousands of parents and carers every year who are
worried about issues such as depression, self-injury, behavioural problems
and school phobia and can discuss concerns about anyone up to the age of 25.
We offer information and professional advice, via a telephone and email
service
Freephone 0808 802 5544, or parents@youngminds.org.uk.
10am-4pm every weekday, with an evening session on Wednesdays
6pm-8pm.
For any adult concerned about the emotions or behaviour of a child or
young person.www.youngminds.org.uk/parents
LONDON REFUGE (ST CHRISTOPHER’S
& THE LONDON CONNECTION)
Freephone - 0800 389 2168
www.stchris.org.uk/pages/what-we-do/london-refuge/the-london-refuge.html
www.london-connection.org.uk
St Christopher’s Fellowship provides accommodation for young
runaways between the ages of 11 and 16.
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF COUNSELORS
www.bacp.co.uk
BACP seeks to advise and inform national and international policy and
procedures concerned with counseling and psychotherapy, offering information
and guidance to those involved in the process
Missing Persons Bureau
www.npia.police.uk/mpb
The National Policing Improvements Agency (NPIA) Missing Persons Bureau
works alongside the police and related organisations in order to improve the
services provided to missing person’s investigations and to increase the
effectiveness of the police response.
PACT
www.pact-online.org
PACT's mission is to fight parental child abduction and to help the police
locate and retrieve missing children.
The Lucy Blackman Trust
www.lucieblackmantrust.org
The trust aims work in the promotion of education and safety in
regard to the use of electronic and other means and media and facilitate the
exchange of information and experience of members (the public) in the areas
of personal safety.
CEOP
www.ceop.gov.uk
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre works
across the UK and maximises international links to tackle child sex abuse
wherever and whenever it happens.
REUNITE
www.reunite.org
Reunite started life in 1986 as reunite National Council for Abducted
Children, a parent support network formed by parents all trying to navigate
their way through the legal minefield of international parental child
abduction.
UKHTC (United kingdom
Human Trafficking Centre)
www.ukhtc.org
The UK Human Trafficking Centre is a centre of expertise for the
investigation of human trafficking.