You can make the Government listen. You can help us put pressure on the Government to take three small steps to protect child victims of trafficking. The rights of child victims of trafficking are being violated. This is wrong. It’s time to put things right. To support our campaigns please take action now. What are the Three Small Steps? ECPAT UK is urging the Government to give better protection and support to child victims of trafficking through our campaign Three Small Steps to Protect Child Victims of Trafficking. To safeguard child victims of trafficking the Government must: improve accommodation provision for child victims of trafficking introduce a system of guardianship for child victims of trafficking appoint a National Rapporteur on Trafficking - an independent watchdog who monitors and reports publicly on child trafficking in the UK and recommends change. Read more

Trafficked from Lithuania and then internally to different brothels. Danuta was a teenager when she was recruited by a trafficker from a children’s home in Lithuania. When she arrived in the UK via Dover with three or four other females, they were taken to a brothel and forced into prostitution in North-West England. Danuta was then moved to another brothel in South Wales. She was rescued by the police from a brothel in South Wales within 24 hours after she contacted her home in Lithuania and called for help to return to the children’s home.    Trafficked and sold again  Henry was 13 when he was trafficked from Cameroon to the UK to be used as a house slave in a suburb of London. At 16 he was abandoned when the family moved to France. He had no identity documents, no money and nowhere to go and called a friend for help.   The friend bought him new clothes and Henry stayed in his house. He then forced Henry into prostitution to pay off the ‘debt’ and Henry was sexually abused until he could escape a year later.

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