Guidance to Police Forces on Missing Migrant Children

National Police Chiefs’ Council (2023)

This document seeks to provide advice to policing on how to respond to reports of migrant children and seeks to ensure a professional and consistent response across the UK. The primary focus of this document relates to unaccompanied migrant children, although there are sections on missing migrant families that include children, missing migrant children who have applied for a visa, and missing migrant children who have applied to remain in the UK under the EU Settlement Scheme.

This open-access document is available to view online.

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