Today (16th August 2019) the charity Action Against Abduction is calling for an urgent review of child abduction offences, following the latest increases in crimes recorded. Data released by the...Read More
Action Against Abduction has been granted £20,000 to develop the Clever Never Goes programme thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The funding was awarded through People’s Postcode Trust, a...Read More
Today (5 June 2018) the charity Action Against Abduction in partnership with Hampshire Constabulary will launch a new child safety programme: ‘Clever Never Goes’. It comes at the same time...Read More
New statistics published today by Action Against Abduction show that police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland recorded 835 non-parental child abductions in 2015/16. This is more than double the...Read More
Geoff Newiss, centre (Chief Executive, Action Against Abduction) and members of the Cubo team London based creative agency Cubo have been appointed to develop Action Against Abduction’s new campaign...Read More
Jacky Halton, Head Teacher, Crofton Hammond Infant School, Stubbington, Hampshire and Geoff Newiss, Chief Executive, Action Against Abduction Our Safe, Not Scared project has received a significant boost with...Read More
Action Against Abduction has joined forces with the St. James’s Place Foundation to screen our powerful, new documentary Sarah-Cecilie. The event will take place on Thursday 23 February (6:30pm) at...Read More
The news of the abduction and rape of a teenage girl in Oxford made national headlines. The 14 year-old, walking to school, was forced into a car on a busy street...Read More
Yesterday (29 September) news of the abduction and rape of a teenage girl in Oxford made national headlines. The 14 year-old, walking to school, was forced into a car on...Read More
Today, Action Against Abduction joined AMBER Alert Europe, an international not for profit organisation with 23 members (law enforcement, ministries & NGOs) in 16 countries. AMBER Alert Europe connects citizens with...Read More
On June 29, Lady Catherine Meyer presented our new documentary Sarah-Cecilie to an audience at the European Parliament. The event was organised by Missing Children Europe. The film highlights the life-long...Read More
Today, Geoff Newiss takes up the post of Chief Executive of Action Against Abduction. Geoff has worked with the charity for over a decade, leading on two major pieces of...Read More
On 24 February Lady Catherine Meyer, CEO of Action Against Abduction, was presented with the Children’s Hero award, by Sir Bob Geldof. The award was made as part of the...Read More
Geoff Newiss, our Director of Research, spoke at length in this BBC Radio Scotland documentary about ‘Stranger Danger’. Part of the ‘Real-Life Parenting’ series, presenter Shelley Jofre remembers the public...Read More
Geoff Newiss, our researcher, who recently published the report on child abduction figures, has been published in the Scotsman, commenting on the difficulty of obtaining accurate data on child...Read More
Action Against Abduction (Formerly PACT) campaigned for many years to have the Amber Alert system adopted in the UK. Finally in 2012 the Child Rescue Alert was introduced. In this...Read More
On 15 December 2015, PACT (Parents and Abducted Children Together) changed its name to Action Against Abduction. We have been thinking of doing this for some time and feel that...Read More
2015 draws to an end with significant advances across a broad front. Action Against Abduction (formerly PACT), has once again been able to punch above its weight, thanks in large...Read More
2015 draws to an end with significant advances across a broad front. Action Against Abduction (formerly PACT), has once again been able to punch above its weight, thanks in large...Read More
In a feature article in The Guardian journalist Eleanor Tucker talks to Sarah-Cecilie, the subject of our new documentary that looks at the experience of parental abduction and the profound...Read More
On 21 October 2015, thanks to the sponsorship of Nicola Blackwood MP, PACT hosted the screening of its latest documentary film, “Sarah Cecilie” at the Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House. Our guest speaker, The...Read More
This evening (Tuesday 20 October) Catherine Meyer will be appearing on London Live to discuss PACT’s new documentary with Luke Blackall. PACT’s latest documentary film examines the effects of abduction from...Read More
PACT’s latest documentary film examines the effects of abduction from the point of view of the child and the two estranged estranged parents. Click here for a four minute...Read More
PACT wants to establish why police-recorded child abduction offences are increasing Last week – on our Child Abduction Hub site – we reported that, according to the latest crime statistics...Read More
“This small-scale qualitative study was undertaken to investigate the lived experiences of those who were abducted many years earlier. The aim was to learn whether, and how, in the views...Read More
From March, all new British passports will be issued with an ‘important information’ leaflet that provides essential guidance on protecting your child from the threat of traffickers and the vital...Read More
Police-recorded child abduction and kidnapping 2012/13 to 2013/14 England, Wales and Northern Ireland. On Sunday 22 February 2015 PACT launched its latest report on police recorded child abduction and kidnapping...Read More
The abductions of April Jones and Madeleine McCann attracted enormous media and public interest. But, for every high-profile case, there are hundreds of child abductions or attempted abductions that pass...Read More
To mark the 2014 International Missing Children’s Day, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, unveiled at a reception in the House of Lords in May two major initiatives to protect children...Read More
Our longstanding supporter, the City Bridge Trust, has awarded us a new grant of £60,000 over two years (£30,000 in 2014 and £30,000 in 2015) towards the establishmentRead More
The Child Abduction Hub, conceived and managed by PACT, is the UK’s first centre for information and research on all types of child abduction. The Child Abduction Hub was brought...Read More
In 2014, out of 650 applicants, PACT and fellow-charity Missing People were joint winners of generous funding from the People’s Post Code Lottery Dream Fund for their Child Abduction Project....Read More
