EU to launch hotline for missing kids

by Kaitlin | February 15, 2007 at 03:37 pm

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These social services are the reason that things like the European Union should exist in the first place (in my humble opinion). Here's hoping this is a model for similar programs in other areas of the world...

The EU will set up a single hotline for parents to report missing children.

Calls to the new phone number - 116000 - will be free of charge and it is expected to be launched by summer.

Several of the EU's 27 member states already have their own missing children hotlines, but this is the first attempt to set up a common phone number.

At least 120,000 children are known to live outside their home country without supervision in the EU, according to a European children's organisation.

On call

The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) says this figure only includes children known about by the authorities.

The hotline may be run by private organisations in each country.