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ECPAT UK welcomes new CEOP report - Strategic Threat Assessment on Child Trafficking in the UK
24 April 2009

ECPAT UK welcomes this new CEOP report as it provides further evidence that child trafficking is a significant UK child protection issue that is not getting the resources to protect children from harm. Christine Beddoe of ECPAT UK said today: “The only way to prevent trafficking is to provide high standards of care to victims so that the traffickers know they will get caught. Traffickers target the UK because they know they can get away with it.”

ECPAT UK is calling on the Government to immediately provide:

• a system of guardianship for all trafficked children;

• nationally agreed standards on safe accommodation for child victims of trafficking;

• specialist multi-agency teams at all ports of entry similar to the Metropolitan Police Paladin Team.

For a copy of the CEOP report go to: http://www.ceop.gov.uk/downloads/documents/child_trafficking_report0409.pdf

ENDS

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Christine Beddoe, Director, ECPAT UK

Tel: 07906 341 889 or 020 7233 9887

Notes to the Editor ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) is a leading UK children’s rights organisation. ECPAT UK works with the highest levels of government but also reaches out to practitioners and those working directly with children through research, training and capacity building.

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