Training

"ECPAT UK helped me view life from the victim's perspective, making the reality of our job worthy." Social worker, London

ECPAT UK offers a comprehensive training programme, in line with National Occupational Standards, delivering courses for more than 20 years to help improve responses to child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation.

Child trafficking, exploitation and modern slavery

Our full-day face-to-face training will support participants to develop a clear understanding of how to recognise child trafficking, exploitation and modern slavery, as well as provide up-to-date skills to respond to these abuses and better support trafficked children.Read more

Modern Slavery Act 2015

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 makes provisions for the protection of child victims of trafficking. This course assists frontline professionals to understand their responsibility under the Act and use it to improve identification and care of child victims of trafficking. Read more

Missing from care

This is a practical course designed to help professionals working with separated children seeking asylum and child victims of trafficking understand and prevent vulnerable children going missing from care.Read more

Forced criminality and non-prosecution for victims of trafficking

Delivered in partnership with leading human trafficking and modern slavery lawyer, Philippa Southwell, this course aims to provide practical support to identify, safeguard and respond to the needs of children and young people who may have been trafficked and exploited for forced criminality.Read more

Child trafficking through ritual and spiritual abuse

This course is designed to introduce participants to the subject of children who are trafficked through ritual and spiritual abuse. Read more

Best practice in interviewing children

Delivered in partnership with leading refugee children’s lawyer, Kalvir Kaur from ATLEU, this course aims to develop greater knowledge of best practice for interviewing children.Read more

Safeguarding children: trafficking and exploitation of children in tourism

ECPAT UK provides training to the travel and tourism industry on developing policy and practical measures to protect children from sexual exploitation. Training is available to hotels, tour operators, travel agents and others interested in ethical and sustainable tourism.Read more

E-learning

ECPAT UK hosts online training courses to supplement our face-to-face training for those who may work with children who have been victims of exploitation.Read more

Request a speaker

We are keen to share our experience of and expertise in promoting the rights of children and will always endeavour to ensure cost is not prohibitive to us providing a speaker.Read more

Latest

New job vacancy: Policy & Campaigns Officer

ECPAT UK is recruiting a Policy and Campaigns Officer to help influence systemic change for children who have been trafficked.

UK modern slavery more widespread than previously thought, National Crime Agency says

The scale of human trafficking and modern slavery is far larger than “anyone had previously thought”, the National Crime Agency has said today. Tens of thousands of adults and children, according to NCA Director of Vulnerabilities, Will Kerr, are likely to have been trafficked into modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK.

Training courses

Lighting the way

The second report for the ReACT project provides guidance for professionals on how to improve the identification and protection of children who may have been trafficked.

The National Referral Mechanism

The National Referral Mechanism is a process set up by the Government to identify and support victims of trafficking in the UK. It was born out of the Government's obligation to identify victims under the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Human Trafficking, which came into force on 1 February 2008.