Watch over me. A system of guardianship for child victims of trafficking
- Document number
- 2873
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Watch over me. A system of guardianship for child victims of trafficking
- Author/publisher
- Kaur Kalvir, ECPAT UK
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- This report represents ECPAT UK's response to the Government's position. It has been drafted on the basis of communication with a range of parliamentarians, countries in which a system of guardianship has been introduced, two workshops with ECPAT UK's Youth Group, and a comprehensive legal analysis of the UK's national and international obligations to child victims of trafficking. It finds that the UK has failed toprioritise the best interests of child victims of trafficking, and has failed to identify and subsequently provide for the distinct needs of these children. The impact of these failures continues to be disproportionate, serious and a real cause for concern.
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