{"id":28094,"date":"2017-11-22T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/?p=28094"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:35:55","slug":"missing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/children\/i-am-a-professional\/missing-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"section\">\n<p>Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children \u2013 and in particular protecting them from significant harm \u2013 depends on effective joint-working between agencies and professionals that have different roles and expertise. Individual children, especially some of the most vulnerable children and those at greatest risk of social exclusion, need co-ordinated help from health, education, children\u2019s social care and preventative services, the voluntary sector and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition further detail about what the police will require from you when reporting a child missing can be found on this link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avonandsomerset.police.uk\/report\/missing-people\/\">Report a missing person | Avon and Somerset Police\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avonandsomerset.police.uk\/philomena-protocol-safeguarding-young-people\/\">Philomena Protocol here. \u00a0<\/a>A poster is available in the downloads<\/p>\n<p>The Missing Children Protocol describes how agencies and professionals will work together when a child is missing. It has been developed and adopted by the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board for the use of all agencies, organisations, professionals and carers with a responsibility to safeguard children in this local authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2025\/09\/Children-Missing-from-Home-Care-and-School-Multi-Agency-Protocol-Aug-2025-3.pdf\">Children Missing from Home Care and School Multi-Agency Protocol Aug 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2017\/11\/4666-Missing-Children-Leaflet-Web-FINAL.pdf\">Missing Children Leaflet\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children \u2013 and in particular protecting them from significant harm \u2013 depends on effective joint-working between agencies and professionals that have different roles and expertise. Individual children, especially some of the most vulnerable children and those at greatest risk of social exclusion, need co-ordinated help from health, education, children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28094"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37626,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions\/37626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}