Children services
Responsibility for the care, protection and accommodation of child trafficking victims from the UK and abroad falls to local authorities...
Children and young people
How does the law differ for children, what types of exploitation do they experience, age disputes and what are the signs that a child has been trafficked.
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Referral to police
A potential child victim of modern slavery is a potential victim of a crime. All cases involving children should be... -
Claiming asylum
Children entering the asylum system can be either accompanied or unaccompanied. An unaccompanied asylum seeking child is defined by paragraph... -
Accommodation and support for unaccompanied children
Care leavers Exclusions from local authority support Section 17 support -
Compensation claims for child victims of trafficking
All witnesses regardless of age are presumed competent and it is therefore not the case that just because your client... -
Criminal prosecutions
Trafficked children may be encountered in situations of criminal exploitation such as in cannabis factories or as pick pockets. This... -
Voluntary return
If the child requests to return this may be via assisted voluntary return. if they are eligible. If the child... -
Resources
International Legal Standards Convention on the Rights of the Child Universal Declaration of Human Rights Child Trafficking Protocol to Prevent,...