Latest changes – specific investigations

• 'Young people and risky behaviour' section: 'no apparent risk' changed to 'very low'; swapped 'put' for 'find'; added 'be vulnerable specifically when:'; deleted 'engage in further risky behaviours, such as.'
• 'Child Rescue Alert' section: used sentence case for bullets; deleted sentence starting 'The CRA has been expanded...'
• 'Children remanded to local authority accommodation' section: last sentence, changed investigating officer to sentence case.
• 'Out of area placements' section: Added 'may also be' after There and before 'reasons why this is not...'
• 'Missing from hospital emergency departments' section: deleted the sentence commencing 'The police have a duty to...', the paragraph now starts 'The hospital...', deleted 'also' and added 'at their home address' within brackets.
• 'Found remains/people' section: added 'forces' to sentence starting 'where an unidentified body is found...' Removed the sentence 'The UKMPU has developed...' and its associated resources.
• 'BTP' section: Location and return of a missing person: 'or an' inserted in last paragraph.
• 'Migrant children' section: the word 'people' replaced with 'children' in the second sentence, also inserted 'normally'. Added a paragraph after the 2nd, regarding children care facility and age assessment.
• 'Missing persons at large events' section: word 'enable' added, last line before bullets.
• 'The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office' section: For further information see 'International Crime Coordination Centre...' - deleted this and the link to APP on international investigation, replaced with a paragraph on JICC.
• 'Identification process' section: added 'who is a SIM' after senior detective.

Link removed to UKMPB file 'Identification process – good practice: Procedural'.

General updates: reference to Philomena Protocol, references updated, removed or added, CRA updated, contact details updated (UKMPU, FCDO), police duty of care updated (section 'missing from hospital emergency departments'), SISII section removed.

07/02/2023 Links added to Voice of the child documents in the section on Missing children

Replaced broken link for the NPCC missing persons tasking and transfer request form, under 'Ownership and responsibility for cases'.

Wording in section on notifying the British transport police of suicidal missing persons amended.

Link replaced in further information box within Migrant children.

Within the Foreign and Commonwealth section, link added to International investigation.

Note added to direct reader to updated APP on International investigations in line with the UK leaving the European Union.

New Child Rescue Alert guidance added.

Updated version of Parental Child Aduction guidance.

Change to wording of ownership and transfer.