A booklet providing answers to commonly asked questions on child trafficking. It covers what child trafficking is, how trafficked children are exploited in the UK and the impact this has on them, identifying children who are trafficked, the challenges facing children once identified and preventing child trafficking. It includes the case studies to highlight the individual experiences of children...
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A booklet providing answers to commonly asked questions on child trafficking. It covers what child trafficking is, how trafficked children are exploited in the UK and the impact this has on them, identifying children who are trafficked, the challenges facing children once identified and preventing child trafficking. It includes the case studies to highlight the individual experiences of children who have been trafficked. The resource will be useful to help practitioners, campaigners and policy makers to inform themselves about child trafficking and children’s rights, and ensure the needs of trafficked children are met.
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This manifesto identifies three key areas where political change and leadership are needed to realise a new commitment to childhood: putting children's well-being at the heart of public policy, prioritising the interests of children facing the greatest disadvantage and including children as valued citizens in reforms for democratic renewal.
This manifesto identifies three key areas where political change and leadership are needed to realise a new commitment to childhood: putting children's well-being at the heart of public policy, prioritising the interests of children facing the greatest disadvantage and including children as valued citizens in reforms for democratic renewal.
This conference examined supply issues - factors fuelling the trafficking of children in Africa; demand issues - identification of victims and the impact of trafficking in the UK; responses at source and in the UK; and improving the governmental framework to address trafficking. Twenty-two recommendations are made.
This conference examined supply issues - factors fuelling the trafficking of children in Africa; demand issues - identification of victims and the impact of trafficking in the UK; responses at source and in the UK; and improving the governmental framework to address trafficking. Twenty-two recommendations are made.
The Children Now Participation Charter sets out a vision for giving children and young people a say in the decisions that affect them. It was drawn up in conjunction with experts and organisations in the field and children and young people. This article highlights the key points.
The Children Now Participation Charter sets out a vision for giving children and young people a say in the decisions that affect them. It was drawn up in conjunction with experts and organisations in the field and children and young people. This article highlights the key points.
Report on the first year of calls to Childline on special telephone lines dedicated to children calling from London and the South East, launched on April 14, 1997.
Report on the first year of calls to Childline on special telephone lines dedicated to children calling from London and the South East, launched on April 14, 1997.
This briefing seeks to inform the debate around young people seeking asylum in the UK who claim to be children and whose claimed age is not believed; provides a full and balanced narrative of age disputed people seeking asylum, given the disproportionate focus in the media and from Government of adults 'posing' as children; describes the process for treating someone as 'age disputed...
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This briefing seeks to inform the debate around young people seeking asylum in the UK who claim to be children and whose claimed age is not believed; provides a full and balanced narrative of age disputed people seeking asylum, given the disproportionate focus in the media and from Government of adults 'posing' as children; describes the process for treating someone as 'age disputed' and resolving the dispute when the government says someone is an adult and they claim to be a child; explains how the Refugee Council intervenes and what is done to overturn decisions we believe are wrong. To reduce the number of children mistakenly identified as adults, the briefing makes a number of recommendations, including that the government collect and publish statistics on age disputed young people who are treated as adult and later found to be children following a properly conducted assessment; or who are initially assessed to be adult and who are subsequently found to be children by an Immigration Judge. It also recommends that an independent oversight body such as Ofsted should conduct or commission analysis of the current numbers and quality of age assessments conducted by social workers following visual age assessments by the Home Office.
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