Sunday, November 7, 2010

275,000 Missing Britons every year to face government cuts

The Independent On Sunday

Missing persons services at risk as funding is slashed
National charity to lose all its government cash as police admit their work on the issue will also be hit


By Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor

Sunday November 7, 2010

How 'The Independent on Sunday' last year highlighted
the crisis facing the charity, Missing People
George Osborne's multibillion-pound spending cuts threaten to sever a national "lifeline" that helps tens of thousands of missing people and the families they leave behind.

Britain's biggest missing persons charity has been plunged into crisis after ministers confirmed it will lose all of its £500,000 government funding. Missing People, which helps more than 100,000 callers a year, warns that the cut will cause "catastrophic" damage to its work supporting "mispers", runaways and their families...

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