Madeleine McCann, still missing, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment

MADELEINE McCann's mother Kate will today plead with politicians to do more to support the families of missing children.

Madeleine McCann's mother wants the Government to ease the bureaucratic burden on them.

Madeleine, still missing, disappeared from the family's holiday apartment in Portugal's Algarve just days before her fourth birthday in 2007.

Mrs McCann, from Rothley, Leics, will tell MPs that such families are left with ?unending heartbreak, confusion and guilt?.

She will add that ?financial and legal bureaucracy? just adds to their woes.

She says: ?In addition to the reassurance that everything possible is being done to find their missing loved one, families need support.

?And they should be spared the additional pain of financial and legal bureaucracy.?

Martin Houghton-Brown, chief executive of charity Missing People, is supporting Mrs McCann's plea for extra help.