A Scoping Project on Child Trafficking in the UK
- Document number
- 1388
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- A Scoping Project on Child Trafficking in the UK
- Author/publisher
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), Home Office and the Border and Immigration Agency
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Quantitative Data, China, Africa, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Transit, Separated Children, Exploitation, Trafficking process, Asylum Process, Victim Support, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries,
- Summary
- In mid-2006, the Home Office commissioned the Child Exploitation and Online ProtectionCentre (CEOP) to conduct an intelligence gathering project to try to establish the level ofexisting information and understanding of child trafficking. It was anticipated that such anassessment would also provide a preliminary view of the nature and scale of child traffickingin the UK.This report should not be read as a comprehensive analysis of child trafficking into and withinthe UK. Neither should it be used to estimate the total number of children who have beentrafficked into and within the UK but rather as a scoping exercise. This project should beseen as the first stage of a more in-depth study or “strategic threat assessment”.The report has two distinct parts – the first being an assessment of the degrees of awarenessof the various agencies and their ability to identify potentially trafficked children, collect dataand work with other key agencies involved in their care and protection. Part two is an accountof the case data and CEOP’s assessment of it.The research team developed a profile of indicators to help identify and recognise a childvictim of trafficking using the London Area Child Protection Committee (LACPC) profile.From referrals the research team identified 330 unique cases of children that fitted the profile.These cases were categorised into four levels that aligned with the probability of the childhaving been trafficked, based on the amount of information gathered and the degree ofmatching with the profile. Of the 330 children that fit the profile, 70 were categorised as level 1(low probability of trafficking), 70 as level 2 (medium probability), 85 as level 3 (high probability)and 105 as level 4 (very high). Forty -four source countries in total were identified in the studyand varied in regions, mainly consisting of the Far East, South East Asia, Central Asia, SouthAsia, West Africa, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
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