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'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 initiative is scheduled to commence in mid-September – 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.
Please follow the link below to download the full project brief:
Trafficked children project brief
Guidance and procedures
The London procedure for safeguarding trafficked and exploited children (2006)
Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked - government guidance (Dec 2007)
UK action plan on tackling human trafficking (March 2007)
Reports and research
A scoping project on child trafficking in the UK - CEOP (June 2007)
Child migration and trafficking to the UK - Met Police presentation (2007)
Cause for concern? London social services and child trafficking (ECPAT UK, 2004)
Missing out: a study of child trafficking in the North-West, North-East and West Midlands (ECPAT UK, 2007)
Paladin child - a partnership study of child migration to the UK via London Heathrow
Offering more than they borrow: refugee children in London
End child exploitation - stop the traffic (Unicef, 2003)
Further information
Child trafficking advice line - poster
Child trafficking advice line - information leaflet
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.
October 2007 - Trafficked children who go missing
November 2007 - Private fostering
