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 an update was issued in July 2009. Please follow the links below to download the amended version of the toolkit.
London safeguarding trafficked children toolkit (July 2009 update)
This has now been revised to take account of the implementation of the National Referral Mechanism from April 2009, and the main changes are confined to the Trafficking Assessment and Referral to Competent Authority at appendix 16 and 17. Section 6.4 has also been substantially amended to better reflect the new requirements, and the Risk Assessment Matrix at Appendix 9 has been revised to remove the heading for control.
The links below contain some additional documents that boroughs may find useful, although these are presented as optional and are not formally part of the Toolkit or pilot process.
NRM flowchart
NRM briefing for local services
Harrow flowcharts
Harrow good practice guidance
Please follow the link below to download the full project brief and initialsteering 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 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).
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)
Hidden Children - separated children at risk
The report Hidden Children - separated children at risk is now available to download at www.childrenssociety.org.uk/hiddenchildren . Hidden Children is the result of a participatory research project with young migrants who have experienced exploitation or abuse in the UK and includes recommendations for practitioners and decision-makers based on the views of hidden children themselves. The findings and recommendations are relevant for anyone who works with young migrants or in migrant communities.
Reports and research
Trafficking in human beings and the 2006 World Cup in Germany (IOM, 2007)
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
