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 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It highlights large increases in parental child abduction (6 per cent increase), non-parental child abduction (14 per cent) and...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 virtually unnoticed. It is one of our society’s most pressing challenges. This year, to mark International Missing Children’s Day, PACT unveiled a major new initiative...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 from abduction.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 into being to raise awareness of child abduction in its various forms; and to help parents, teachers, and other professionals make well-informed, common-sense decisions on...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. The Project comprised PACT’s newRead More

Geoff Newiss was awarded a Police Commendation for the quality of his research and the subsequent report, Taken.Read More

Lady Catherine Meyer was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honour for her “services to children and families”.Read More