A SAFETY team helped reunited a missing child with their family.

The Southend Community Safety Team were on patrols during a busy day at the seafront yesterday when they were made aware of the missing child near the beach.

A spokesman for Safer Southend said: "A missing child was located & reunited with their parents on the seafront.

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"This is a regular part of the CSO role, particularly in the summer time.

"Elsewhere a large protest was managed with as minimum disruption as possible and usual targeted patrols undertaken."