Every year more than 100,000 children go missing in the UK - that is one child who disappears every five minutes.
Charity Missing People is working to find these children who disappeared in the UK
Parents And Children Together (PACT) came up with this figure but the charity Missing People has released a new report suggesting the number could be even higher, at around 150,000.
While the majority are found, some remain missing.
Andrew Gosden, 14, is one of the few who have not been found.
Without warning, he left home in Doncaster on September 14, 2007.
He had £200 of his savings. Later that day he was captured on CCTV at King's Cross station in London but he has not been seen since.
His parents Kevin and Glenys have been to London countless times looking for him.
"I think there's a fair chance that he might not be alive or he's being held against his will," says Glenys.
"You have hope in one hand and grief in the other but every day brings hope that it might be the day that he'll phone or make some contact."
Kevin has found it so difficult to cope with his son's disappearance that he attempted to commit suicide.
"When Andrew went missing, it's that feeling when your children are small, that absolute panic that 'Oh, where have they gone?'
"It's that panic going on and on, day after day, week after week, month after month."
According to Missing People, young people aged under 18 account for two-thirds of all police missing persons reports and 70% of youngsters reported missing had chosen to disappear.
"Young people go missing for a number of reasons," says Geoff Newiss, director of policy and research at the charity.
"Many run away from home or care, from school, from peer groups. The reasons cross the whole spectrum from bullying to mental health problems to involvement in drugs and alcohol, the cross-section is wide."
In 2000, Nadia Belhaj, then aged 14, skipped school with a friend. Their day out turned into six weeks away.
Glenys and Kevin Gosden
They stole to survive and slept on the streets. Eventually they were recognised by a police officer and taken home.
"I didn't really have a reason, I just up and left," says the 22-year-old from Leigh-on-Sea.
"I didn't plan on staying away so long. I wasn't doing it to be spiteful, I didn't think how my parents were feeling - it was just about me for once."
Missing People is currently working to find around 300 children, a third of those have not been seen for more than a year.
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