Parental child abductions from UK 'double in a decade'.

The FCO said about 70% of abducting parents were mothers

10 years on and the message IN THIS BBC article is EVEN MORE RELEVANT TODAY THAN IT WAS THEN. Parental Abduction is an increasingly prevalent abuse faced by children across the Uk. With case numbers more than doubling between 2003 and 2013 there is now huge concern for the impact that Parental child Abduction has on OUR COUNTRY A DECADE ON. Although Authorities in England and Wales CAN AT LEAST grasp THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM, THE sCOTTISH gOVERNMENT AND poLICE Scotland have no facility for collating FIGURES FOR CHILDREN REMOVED UNLAWFULLY from the country BY a parent.

“The number of parental child abduction cases has more than doubled in the last decade, new figures from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) suggest.

The FCO and charity Reunite say almost two children a day on average are taken out of the UK against a court order or without the consent of one parent.

There were 272 new parental child abduction and international custody cases in 2003-04, and 580 in 2012-13.”

for the full article published by BBC NEWS click here.