ECPAT UK has joined 19 other organisations in continuing the call for an independent inquiry into the treatment of unaccompanied children following the publication of outstanding reports including the reinspection of Home Office hotels, by His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration Read more
Launch event of our latest report, ‘Prevention and identification of children and young adults experiencing, or at risk of, modern slavery in the UK', with ECPAT UK and Rights Lab on 26 February 2024. Read more
New research report reveals the alarming reality of child modern slavery in the UK and calls for urgent action to protect children and young people. Read more
We are delighted to be taking part once again in the Big Give Christmas Challenge Week matched funding campaign. From 28th November to 5th December 2023 all donations are DOUBLED in support of our direct work with child victims of trafficking Read more
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We are sharing the enclosed briefing, concisely setting out how the Bill undermines the rule of law, and urge Members of Parliament to oppose this Bill at Second Reading. Read more
Learn about our new #CareForEveryChild project offering support to children who have spent time in UK Home Office hotels outside of the care that they were entitled to and at risk. Read more
ECPAT UK's team has more than 30 years' experience working on issues of child trafficking, child protection, child sexual exploitation, unaccompanied children, modern slavery and more. Read more
We are delighted to be taking part in the Champions for Children match funding campaign from 6th June – 20th June 2023. During this fundraising fortnight all donations will be DOUBLED! Read more
The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, a coalition of over 60 organisations (including ECPAT UK), is appalled by the continued use of hotels by the Home Office to accommodate unaccompanied children arriving in the UK and has continued to demand that it is stopped and that children are looked after by local authorities as all children should and according to the law. This briefing explains why. Read more
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this in-person annual festive gathering to celebrate the power and importance of love as social action. It was a fabulous evening of inspirational speakers, music, singing and storytelling with performances from internationally renowned composer and performer Saied Silbak and actor and writer Safia Lamrani. All in aid of our work and part of our Big Give Christmas Challenge Read more
ECPAT UK took part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge Week from 29th November to 6th December 2022 in partnership with our generous funders at The Childhood Trust and Wyndham Charitable Trust every donation received will be matched! Thanks to your support we raised over £10,000 in total to support young victims of trafficking with festive hampers and critical services through our work. Read more
This interim report summarises the main findings from a participatory research study based on the voices of young people who have experience of modern slavery, aiming to understand what positive outcomes for these young people would look like. The research was led by the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Bedfordshire’s Institute of Applied Social Research, in partnership with ECPAT UK. Read more
New data obtained via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows that 45 unaccompanied children in the UK went missing in between June 2021 and March 2022 after the Home Secretary unlawfully placed them in Home Office-led hotel accommodation. Read more
The government’s new draft Slavery and Human Trafficking (Definition of Victim) Regulations narrow the definition of a victim of trafficking and modern slavery, reducing the chances that victims will be identified. They were introduced without consulting anti-trafficking organisations and they could have far-reaching and damaging consequences for victims of trafficking and modern slavery. This new joint briefing presents our concerns about the regulations and recommendations to improve them. Read more
In June 2022 ECPAT UK partnered with the Big Give and The Childhood Trust to take part in the Champions for Children matched fundraising event! Between 14th-21st June 2022, every single donation we received was doubled by The Childhood Trust and our generous pledger funders! Read more
The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, a coalition of over 60 organisations (including ECPAT UK), has produced this briefing outlining how the government's plan to remove people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda could impact children, and how to protect age-disputed young people from relocation under the scheme. Read more
Thank you for joining us to fundraise for Thrive, a new therapeutic support service provided as part of the ECPAT UK Youth Programme. Read more
'When Harm Remains: an update report on trafficked and unaccompanied children going missing from care in the UK' follows up on ECPAT UK’s and Missing People’s first study, 'Heading Back to Harm' (which discovered that an alarmingly high number of children go missing from care with many never being found), and our second study, 'Still in Harm’s Way', which confirmed the findings that trafficked and unaccompanied children are amongst those at greatest risk of going missing in the UK. Read more
Part 5 of the Bill seeks to reform modern slavery legislation, and will impact severely on children who are at risk and vulnerable to exploitation. This joint briefing provides detail on the contents of and need for Lords Amendment 27, which seeks to exempt child victims from the most damaging provisions in this part of the Bill and to ensure that all decisions are made in their best interests. Read more
Part 5 of the Nationality and Borders Bill seeks to reform modern slavery legislation, and will impact severely on children who are at risk and vulnerable to exploitation. This briefing looks at Amendment 27, which seeks to exempt child victims from the most damaging provisions in this part of the Bill and to ensure that all decisions are made in their best interests. Read more
Part 5 of the Nationality and Borders Bill will affect all child victims of trafficking, and will be detrimental to unaccompanied children at significant risk of exploitation. This briefing supports a number of changes to the Bill, including an amendment which would exempt victims of modern slavery, exploitation or trafficking from many of the provisions in Part 5 if they were under 18 when they became a victim, and would ensure the best interests of children in all decisions about them. Read more
The Nationality and Borders Bill includes damaging proposals which will impact all child victims of trafficking, including those subject to immigration control. This briefing focuses on concerns about immigration decision-making for child victims of trafficking and modern slavery in the context of the proposals to legislate, for the first time, the specific entitlement to immigration leave for confirmed victims of modern slavery – perhaps the only measure that has a place in this Bill. Read more
The Nationality and Borders Bill began its Committee Stage Reading in the House of Lords on 27th January 2022. This briefing addresses Part 5 of the Bill, which contains no protections or differential provisions for child victims, setting out our concerns about the ways in which Part 5 will impact children and young people, and supporting amendments for mitigating its worst effects. Read more