Each year, ECPAT UK recognises an individual who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to trafficked children with our Children's Champion award.
Find out more about the achievements of our brilliant Children's Champions over the years.
Sima Modhvadia, an Independent Child Trafficking Guardian (ICTG) with Barnardo’s National Counter Trafficking Service, has been awarded ECPAT UK’s Children’s Champion Award for 2022. The award is made in recognition of Sima’s outstanding work with young victims and her exceptional nurturing and empowering approach. Read more
We're delighted to announce that ECPAT UK's Children's Champion award 2022 is now open for nominations! Each year, ECPAT UK recognises someone who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to trafficked children. The winner will be selected in June by our panel of staff, trustees and young people affected by trafficking. Send in your nominations by 17th June! Read more
Maria Demosthenous, a senior child care solicitor with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, has been awarded ECPAT UK’s Children’s Champion Award for 2020. The award is made in recognition of Maria’s outstanding commitment to child victims of trafficking in her local authority over the last 13 years. Read more
ECPAT UK has today announced Garden Court Chambers as the recipient of the 2019 Children’s Champion Award. The award is made in recognition of Garden Court's tireless work advocating for the rights of trafficked children and developing the law to protect child victims for over a decade. Read more
ECPAT UK has today announced solicitor Silvia Nicolaou Garcia as the recipient of the 2018 Children’s Champion award. Read more
ECPAT UK has today announced the Scottish Guardianship Service as the recipient of the 2016 Children’s Champion award. Read more
ECPAT UK has today recognised leading Parliamentary children’s rights advocate Lord McColl with its 2015 Children’s Champion award. Read more
Leading refugee children's solicitor Kalvir Kaur has been presented with the 2014 ECPAT UK Children's Champion award. Read more
ECPAT UK has awarded Paul Hewitt, Head of Safeguarding Children in Hillingdon, our Children’s Champion Award for outstanding commitment to children in 2013. Read more