LONDON (AFP) ? Kate McCann will join other mothers of missing people on Monday to urge the government to give families in their position more support.
McCann, whose daughter Madeleine went missing from her family's holiday flat in Portugal four years ago, will tell MPs of the "unimaginable, unending heartbreak, confusion, guilt, and worry" experienced when a loved one goes missing.
Her evidence is part of a parliamentary inquiry which will also hear from Sarah Godwin, whose son Quentin was 18 when he went missing in New Zealand in 1992 and Nicki Durbin, from Suffolk, whose son Luke disappeared in 2006, aged 19, after going to an Ipswich nightclub.
She will highlight the lack of support available to families and say they need to be spared from "the additional pain of financial and legal bureaucracy."
"In addition to the reassurance that everything possible is being done to find their missing loved one, families need support," she will say.
Ann Coffey, chairwoman of the all party parliamentary group on runaway and missing children and adults, said the MPs were examining what "emotional, practical and legal support those families need to help them cope at such a traumatic time".
"When a child or vulnerable adult goes missing the families left behind are absolutely devastated," she said.
"Often the families feel isolated and alone."
Martin Houghton-Brown, chief executive of the Missing People charity, said: "As it stands, if your house is burgled you are automatically offered emotional, practical and legal support. If your child goes missing you may get nothing."
MPs will also hear from Peter Davies, chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (Ceop) and Home Office minister James Brokenshire.
The inquiry comes after as Scotland Yard reviews the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in Praia da Luz in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.
The Portuguese police inquiry into the disappearance was formally abandoned in July 2008 but private detectives employed by the McCanns have continued the search.
Last month Kate and Gerry McCann launched a book about their daughter's disappearance in the hope of renewing efforts to find her.
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