Hidden Children: separated children at risk
Source: Children’s Society, UK
From Executive Summary:

Hidden Children explores the experience of trafficking and abuse from the point of view of migrant young people. The report is the result of a one-year research project carried out by The Children’s Society into a little-known phenomenon. The findings and recommendations are intended for anyone who has contact with or makes decisions affecting young migrants including education workers, police, social workers, practitioners in voluntary agencies and community members.

Hidden children are migrants under 18 years old who are separated from their usual carers and are exploited or otherwise mistreated by the people who are responsible for them in the UK. ‘Hidden’ is intended to refer to the unseen nature of the exploitation, the lack of awareness about these young people and the fact that exploiters deliberately act to keep them and their treatment hidden. Under the 2000 Palermo Protocol, these young people would usually be considered to have been trafficked to the UK to be exploited. Others may not have been brought to the UK to be exploited but later end up living in abusive private fostering arrangements.

+ Executive Summary (PDF; 2 MB)
+ Full report (PDF; 1.8 MB)

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