Big tweet for missing children

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Jen-Star

Just spotted this on Twitter https://www.missingpeople.org....ig-tweet-coming-soon

I am shocked/scared/saddened at the figures

A staggering 140,000 children go missing in the UK every year. On International Missing Children’s Day (Saturday 25 May) Missing People Patron Stephen Fry will once again join the charity Missing People in harnessing the power of Twitter to help find missing children via The Big Tweet for Missing Children. You can take part too, by retweeting the appeals for missing children that the charity will tweet every 30 minutes.

On this day, the charity will also be holding its flagship annual run Miles for Missing People on Clapham Common. So, please visit www.missingpeople.org.uk/miles2013 to enter, or simply come along to the beautiful Clapham Common and soak up the atmosphere.

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Yogi19Member 10 years

Shocking figures, Jen.

I can't get the link to load for me, so I am guessing that 140,000 includes runaways?

5/25/1312:01 AM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

The site appears to have crashed yogi, good in a way that so many are trying to look at it

5/25/131:34 AM

Yogi19Member 10 years

I thought it might have crashed, Jen. As you say, it's good that so many people are interested.

5/25/133:36 AM

Yellow RoseMember

The site's working now. There was a programme a few months ago about how many children/young people are regarded as missing in the UK, I can't remember the number mentioned but it was staggering so probably similar to as mentioned. A certain percentage would be runaways, but where, and what's happened to the rest

5/25/136:10 PM

~Sparkling Summer~Member 10 years

That's a shocking amount

where do these people go?!!

5/26/133:11 AM

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