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5 results foundAuthor: Great Britain. Home Office Title: Missing Children and Adults: A Cross Government Strategy Summary: There are an estimated 360,000 reports of people going missing in the UK each year amounting to approximately 200,000 missing people. Children and young people make up approximately two thirds of the missing reports and although the vast majority of people who go missing return, or are found quickly, many vulnerable children and adults suffer harm and exploitation whilst missing and some never return. Identifying and ensuring the safest return possible for these vulnerable children and adults is a key part of the police service’s child protection and wider safeguarding role. However, tackling this issue requires a multi-agency response and co-ordination across a range of policy areas and operational partners including the police, local authorities and the health sector. This strategy document sets out a small number of strategic objectives which we believe provide the right foundations for any effective local strategy and which provide a framework for local areas to put in place their own arrangements which seek to ensure we do all we can to prevent people going missing in the first place but that we also ensure we reduce the harm to vulnerable children and adults when they do go missing, focusing on those most at risk, and ensuring that families are supported. Details: London: Home Office, 2011, 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 27, 2012 at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/missing-persons-strategy?view=Binary Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/missing-persons-strategy?view=Binary Shelf Number: 124282 Keywords: Child ProtectionMissing ChildrenMissing Persons (U.K.)Runaways |
Author: Holmes, Lucy Title: Missing People Information Sharing Protocol Westminster Pilot: Evaluation Report Summary: This report presents findings from a six month pilot of an information exchange protocol to improve the joined up response to missing vulnerable adults in the City of Westminster. The protocol allows the charity Missing People and partner organisations to share information to try to locate missing adults and to identify unidentified service users, where there are concerns for their mental wellbeing. The protocol functions by allowing information to be shared in two directions: 1. Requests to Trace vulnerable missing adults may be made by Missing People to one or more of the partners to the protocol where there are reasonable grounds to believe the person may have made contact and where there are concerns for their mental wellbeing. 2. Requests to Identify may be made by protocol partners to Missing people to assist identify or find vulnerable adults, where there are specific concerns about their mental health. The Prime Minister‟s Missing Persons Taskforce, convened in 2009, recommended that “Department of Health (DH) will work with partners to develop an approach to managing risks related to adults with mental illness, learning disability or dementia who go missing” (Home Office, 2010: 16). Whilst this project pre-dated the Missing Persons Taskforce, the development of this protocol marks an important step towards meeting this recommendation. Details: London: Missing People, 2011. 69p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 24, 2012 at https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,131/gid,31/task,doc_download/ Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,131/gid,31/task,doc_download/ Shelf Number: 124734 Keywords: Evaluative StudiesMental Health (U.K.)Missing Persons (U.K.)Victim Services (U.K.) |
Author: Holmes, Lucy Title: Living in Limbo: The experiences of, and impacts on, the families of missing people Summary: Every year police forces in the UK receive in the region of 210,000 reports of missing people. Whilst most are resolved relatively quickly, other disappearances continue for prolonged periods, leaving family members to cope with the pain of not knowing where their loved one is, or what has happened to them. In 2007/08, the charity Missing People recorded nearly 30,000 enquiries about missing people and opened over 1,000 actively managed missing people family support cases. However, despite the high number of people who go missing in the UK each year, relatively little is known about the day to day experiences of the families they leave behind. In the absence of any UK based research conducted directly with families of missing people about their experiences, this research study has been designed to explore the issues such families face. This small scale, exploratory study aimed to provide a rich and deep account of the ways in which a disappearance can affect a missing person’s family members. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 adult participants from 20 families of currently missing adults, all receiving services from Missing People. The missing family members ranged in age from 18 to 70, and the durations for which they had been missing ranged from several months to more than 30 years. Missing incidents may be characterised by the degree of ‘intent’ on the part of the missing person (who may have left intentionally or unintentionally) and the role of external factors (including other people). This is demonstrated by both Payne’s typology of ‘runaways’, ‘throwaways’, ‘pushaways’, ‘fallaways’ and ‘takeaways’, and Biehal et al’s ‘missing continuum’ (Payne, 1995 and Biehal et al, 2003). In many cases, the missing person’s intention may not be fully known or understood by the family members left behind. While this study did not adopt either typology for the purposes of sampling, the distinction between intentional and unintentional absences informed the analysis of the relationship between family members’ perceptions of the disappearance and their subsequent emotional experience. While the experiences of families when someone goes missing are under-researched, there has been some work that has developed relevant concepts. Boss has written extensively on the treatment of families experiencing ‘ambiguous loss’; either as a result of a family member going missing and their fate remaining unknown, or an individual being physically present but having lost their personality, for example through dementia (Boss 1999, 2002, 2007). The concept of ambiguous loss provides a framework for analysing stressors, coping strategies and psychosocial impacts (including how family members’ mental health and subsequent behaviour is affected by the experience). The research has identified three key domains of experience faced by the families of missing people: emotional and social experiences; financial, legal and other practical impacts; and experiences with service providers and the media. Details: London: Missing People, 2008. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 12, 2013 at: www.missingpeople.org.uk Year: 2008 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 127910 Keywords: Missing Persons (U.K.) |
Author: Quinton, Paul Title: Risk, Bureaucracy and Missing Persons: An evaluation of a new approach to the initial police response Summary: Three forces piloted a new approach to missing persons for a three month period. While officers were previously required to attend all incidents as the default initial response, the pilot introduced a new risk assessment process and ‘absence’ category. During the pilot, this category of incidents (involving a person who was not where they were expected to be but not thought to be at risk of harm) were to be monitored by police call handlers without officers being deployed immediately. The evaluation found promising qualitative evidence of the pilot having achieved its primary aim – to make the initial police response to missing persons reports more proportionate to risk. It was thought – as a side benefit – that a more proportionate approach might also help free up police capacity. The evaluation found consistent evidence of the pilot having achieved this secondary aim. Did the pilot result in a more proportionate and risk-based response? • The qualitative research found a widespread perception among officers that the pilot had helped to better identify those at risk, and ensured that higher risk incidents received the attention they required. • This result was not reflected in some of the survey findings. Based on officer descriptions, a high proportion of incidents in the pilot sites were assessed to be low risk. Did a more proportionate response help free up police capacity? • Despite an increase in the number of recorded incidents in the pilot sites, around a third were classified as absences and, thus, did not require officers to attend. • By being more proportionate, the pilot forces were able to target resources better and free up capacity. A saving of 200 shifts over the three month period was estimated as a result of officers not attending absences. The amount of time spent on the initial response to missing persons was also reduced in the pilot sites (-23%) relative to the comparison sites (-3%). In theory, these resources could be redirected towards higher risk incidents. Did the pilot improve officer attitudes and job satisfaction? • Most response officers and supervisors who were interviewed welcomed the pilot, and said their attitudes about attending missing persons incidents had improved. • A survey of officers, however, did not reveal a consistent pattern of attitude change. How did partners view the pilot? • There was widespread view among partners that the police should move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to missing persons. • About two-thirds of respondents were positive or neutral about the pilot. A third were more critical, mainly raising concerns about the application of the new category. • The quality of the engagement partners reportedly received from the police before implementation seemed to affect their level of support for the pilot. • The reduction in missing person coordinators in the pilot forces – an organisational change that was unconnected to the pilot – was potentially regarded as a greater problem. How was the pilot perceived to have affected police safeguarding work? • There was no evidence to suggest the pilot had undermined forces’ ability to carry out proactive safeguarding work (though it was a perceived concern for some partners). • The reduction in missing person coordinators in the pilot forces reportedly would have placed pressure on monitoring and partnership work after the pilot (though it continued). Details: Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, UK: College of Policing, 2013. 55p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 20, 2013 at: http://www.college.police.uk/en/docs/130320_Missing_persons_PUBLICATION_PQ.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.college.police.uk/en/docs/130320_Missing_persons_PUBLICATION_PQ.pdf Shelf Number: 128750 Keywords: Missing ChildrenMissing Persons (U.K.)Police InvestigationsRunaways |
Author: Stevenson, Olivia Title: Geographies of Missing People: Processes, Experiences, Responses Summary: Missing people have a presence and an impact in our everyday lives. A person in the UK is recorded as missing by the police approximately every two minutes and a wealth of agencies – police, charities, health, social workers – are charged with searching for, and supporting those left behind. However, there is a paucity of UK based qualitative research conducted directly with adults reported as missing about their experiences. The Geographies of Missing People research study has been designed to explore why adults leave, but more particularly, where they go and what happens while they are missing. The overall intention of the research is to create a new space of enquiry around missing experience, with direct reference to the people who experience its profound effects (and see also Parr et al (forthcoming) ‘Searching for missing people: families and missing experience’). Details: Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2013. 118p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 26, 2013 at: http://www.geographiesofmissingpeople.org.uk/downloads/Stevenson-et-al.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.geographiesofmissingpeople.org.uk/downloads/Stevenson-et-al.pdf Shelf Number: 129164 Keywords: Criminal InvestigationMissing Persons (U.K.) |