Missing from home
Running away
I'm thinking of running away
I can't take it anymore
- I can’t take it any more
- I’m being hurt, abused or threatened
- I hate myself
- I need some space
- I need help
I don't know who to talk to
I have to leave home
- Where can I go when I leave?
- I know I’m going to go
- The risks of running away
- How to stay safe when I run away
- I’ve been kicked out
- I’ve done something bad
- I want to go somewhere safer
- There are family problems
I know where I am going
- Is it safe?
- I need to be with someone else
- Is it the right thing to do?
- I don’t know if I want to go there
I'm going to go again
- I’m going to go again
- Because running away is what I do
- I don’t want people to look for me
- Nobody understands me
- I hate where I live
- Nothing has changed since I came back
I'm not happy here
I have run away from home
Are people looking for me?
- Your Rights
- How Runaway Helpline can help and what choices you have
- Will the police make me go home?
- How can I stop people looking for me?
- Why the police want to check that you are ok
- I’ve seen my face on a missing poster or website
- I want to send a message home
- Am I in trouble?
- Am I reported missing?
I can't take it anymore
I don't know what to do next
- I don’t know how long I can stay here
- I’m not feeling well
- I haven’t got any money or food
- I don’t know where to go
- I don’t feel safe
I don't want to go back
- Something has been happening that I can’t talk about
- Nobody loves or wants me
- I need to let people know I’m ok
- I’m scared they will find me
- It feels safer being away
I might want to go back
I want to go home
- I don’t know how to get home
- What if things haven’t changed?
- Someone is making me stay away
- Will I be allowed back?
I have run away from home and now I am back
I can't take it anymore
I'm going to go again
- Because running away is what I do
- I don’t want people to look for me
- Nobody understands me
- I hate where I live
- Nothing has changed since I came back
I'm not happy here
Should I talk about what's happened?
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Why do the police or social services want to talk to me?
- What is a Return Home Interview?
- I don’t want to talk about what happened
- I want to talk about what happened
Things are still hard
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