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Trafficking

This page brings together some of the wide variety of resources that now exist to help professionals working with children who may have been trafficked, including guidance, research, training opportunities and signposts to other sources of information. If you are aware of any useful resources that we have not included here, please contact ian.dean@londoncouncils.gov.uk.

London Board trafficked children initiative

At July 2008's London Safeguarding Children Board meeting, the Board approved a 12 month London Trafficked Children Initiative aimed at improving the safeguarding of trafficked children in London. The project brief can be summarised as:

This initiative, to pilot a best practice multi-agency safeguarding children toolkit for responding to the trafficking of children, brings together workstreams from London Councils, individual London LSCBs, the MPS and the Home Office (ACPO, CEOP and UKBA). The identification & assessment element of the toolkit will be used by the Home Office as part of the government’s response to the requirements of the UK in ratifying the Council of Europe’s Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.

This toolkit was launched for piloting in 11 local authorities across London and the UK in January 2009, and can be downloaded via the link below:

London Toolkit for Safeguarding Trafficked Children (1.7mb)

Please follow the link below to download the full project brief and latest steering group meeting notes:

Trafficked children project brief
Steering group meeting notes - 13/05/2008
Steering group meeting notes - 23/06/2008
Social care working group meeting notes - 15/09/2008
Pilots group meeting notes - 13/10/2008

Future pilots steering group meeting dates (all 2pm - 4pm at London Councils):

Mon Jun 15th 2009
Tue Sep 15th 2009
Mon Nov 16th 2009

Agendas for meetings will be circulated in advance. All network members are asked to notify the London Safeguarding Children Board of their intention to attend at least 2 days in advance of the meeting - ian.dean@londoncouncils.gov.uk (for security purposes only those who have notified attendance can be admitted).

Training

ECPAT UK have produced a freee-learning package around child trafficking, that can be used individually, in small groups or during training sessions. To use the e-tool you will need to register first via the link below.

http://course.ecpat.org.uk/index.php

If you cannot access the e-tool for any reason, please contact e.kelly@ecpat.org.uk and she will send you a CD-Rom version instead. A user guide is also available from the link below - this outlines the other main questions that you may have about using the e-tool.

ECPAT UK e-learning tool - user guide

Child Trafficking virtual group

This group is set up by ECPAT UK to initiate sharing of information, expertise, experience and concerns on all areas relating to child trafficking in the UK. Membership of the group is made up of senior managers in statutory and
voluntary sector, social workers, youth workers, healthcare professionals, teachers, charity workers, policy makers.... the list goes on!

On the first Monday of each month, members will receive an email outlining one particular aspect of child trafficking in the UK. They will then be invited to email any comments and responses relevant to that particular aspect of child trafficking to ECPAT within a month. At the end of the month, all responses will be comiled into a brief report that will be sent back to all and posted on this website.

If you would like more information about this group, or to join, please contact Emma Kelly, Programme Coordinator ECPAT UK, on 020 7233 9887 or at e.kelly@ecpat.org.uk.

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