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Preventing child abduction

More help and information

More detailed information can be found in booklets produced by the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or by contacting Reunite, a charity that provides a telephone adviceline dealing with parental child abduction and international custody disputes.

Contact details are:

Department for Constitutional Affairs (Child Abduction Unit)
Telephone: 020 7911 7045/7047

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(when a child has already been taken overseas)
Child Abduction Section
Telephone: 020 7008 0878

Reunite - International Child Abduction Centre
Adviceline: 0116 255 6234
Website (opens in a new browser window): www.reunite.org

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24-hour Passport Adviceline: 0300 222 0000 (see terms and conditions). Calls made to 0300 numbers from landlines and mobile phones are charged to customers at their network provider's national rate. Live operators are available to assist with your enquiry 24 hours a day.