Thames Valley Police have launched an urgent public appeal to help locate two missing children as concerns for their welfare grow.

Officers across the force are searching for Elise and Elliot, who have not been seen since they disappeared from Banbury, Oxfordshire, on Wednesday, April 16. In a bid to help locate the children police have shared a public missing persons appeal online and circulated their images.Police believe the pair have links to the city of Milton Keynes – which is more than 24 miles away from Banbury. Anyone who may have information, no matter how small, that could help officers in their search is urged to come forward.

A statement on the Thames Valley Police Facebook page for Cherwell read: “We are concerned for the welfare of two missing children from Banbury, Oxfordshire. Elise and Elliot are believed to be together and have been missing since 16/4/25. They have links to Banbury and Milton Keynes. If you have any information regarding their whereabouts please phone 101 quoting reference 43250186824. Thankyou.”

With more than 170,000 people going missing each year in the UK, the Mirror is using its platform to launch Missed – a campaign to shine a light on underrepresented public-facing missing persons in the UK via a live interactive map, in partnership with Missing People.

The Mirror campaign is calling for better support and care for missing people and their loved ones. Because every missing person, no matter their background or life choices, is someone’s son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother, partner, friend…and they are always Missed .

Missing People is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting missing children, adults and their loved ones. Its mission is to be a lifeline when someone disappears. Its goals are to make sure going missing is understood as a crisis, and a matter of life and death. That missing people and their families get the right help at the right time, and that no missing person comes to harm.