TheGuardian.com: More than 1,500 child trafficking victims in UK feared back with exploiters
The children’s commissioner for England has warned that some child trafficking victims are not being adequately protected when referred to support services, after the Guardian learned that more than 1,500 victims identified for support are at risk of falling back into the hands of their traffickers.
Child trafficking victims include UK children forced into county lines drug dealing and Albanian children locked up and forced to cultivate cannabis plants.
The children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, was commenting on new freedom of information data shared with the Guardian, which was obtained by the anti-trafficking organisation After Exploitation.
The figures for the period from January 2023 to July 2024 reveal that 1,541 children – 230 girls and 1,311 boys – and 1,714 adults – 1,244 men and 470 women – were referred two or more times to the government’s national referral mechanism (NRM), a support service for potential and confirmed victims of trafficking.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/12/child-trafficking-victims-uk
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