Breaking the Wall of Silence. Practitioners’ responses to trafficked children and young people
- Document number
- 2177
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Breaking the Wall of Silence. Practitioners’ responses to trafficked children and young people
- Author/publisher
- Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes, Silvie Bovarnick
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
- Summary
- The research was conducted by researchers at the University of Bedfordshire and the NSPCC, jointly managed by the University of Bedfordshire and the NSPCC, and principally funded through The Children's Charity. The proposal for the research met relevant ethical requirements and approval. A team of four researchers worked over a two-year period in three sites in the UK to:
• review international and UK literature on trafficking;
• conduct focus groups and interviews with a total of 72 practitioners from a range of children's services selected as the most experienced in working with cases of trafficked children and young people; and
• analyse 37 cases of children and young people: 27 who had been trafficked into the UK from abroad for various forms of exploitation; and 10 UK citizens who were trafficked within the UK for the purpose of sexual exploitation. - Related documents