ECPAT UK

📢 Training and Practice Development Programme: FREE webinars & NEW DATES for online training courses

Starting THIS WEEK, free lunchtime webinars, give an introduction to child trafficking and our training courses.

You can also book on to our training courses.
▶️ www.ecpat.org.uk/Pages/Events...

ECPAT UK Children's Champion 2025: nominations open We're delighted to announce that ECPAT UK's Children's Champion award for 2025 is now open for nominations! ECPAT UK's Children's Champions award recognises someone who has demonstrated outstanding co...

📣 Nominations for our Children’s Champion for 2025 are open! 🌟

ECPAT UK's Children's Champion award recognises someone who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to trafficked children through child centredness, kindness and advocacy.

Find out more and get nominating!

▶️ bit.ly/ECPATUKChamp25

ECPAT UK responds to appointment of Chair of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation ECPAT UK has welcomed the appointment of the Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation, describing it as a critical opportunity to bring clarity, rigour and a children’s rights–b...

ECPAT UK responds to the appointment of a chair to the Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation and call on them to ensure clarity. We remain concerned about the absence of clear terminology and continued use of the term “grooming gangs”.

Read the full statement below:
➡️ tinyurl.com/53vv2hrm

Human rights are #childrights and they matter most when they are hardest to defend.

This #HumanRightsDay, we’re part of 180+ UK organisations led by BIHR standing together to demand better from @ukgovernment.bsky.social

We want leadership to strengthens rights

#HRD25

bit.ly/HRD2025letter

We are delighted that we made our @biggive.bsky.social #christmaschallenge target of £10k!!! Our Festive Fundraiser is supported by our Champion The Childhood Trust and our pledgers.

Thank you for your support for our #childrights work with and for child victims of #trafficking

With just over 30 minutes to go we are in reach of our Big Give target...

Please help get us there and be in with a chance to win in our Prize Raffle!! 👇

ECPAT UK FESTIVE FUNDRAISER 2025 The ECPAT UK Festive Fundraiser is part of the Big Give Christmas Challenge. From 2-9 December all donations are DOUBLED! We are celebrating over 30 years as a charity campaigning against child traffi...

🔊Donate NOW to our @biggive.bsky.social #christmaschallenge - double your donation and a chance to WIN:

🎁 £50 voucher + bottle of Champagne for Salut!
🎁 £20 voucher + bottle of wine for Oui Madame
🎁 Bread board and knife from Boa
🎁 Knife block from Boa

Prizes and link ▶️ bit.ly/FestiveFund25

🕕There is still time to donate to our festive appeal to be entered into our Prize Raffle and DOUBLE THE DIFFERENCE too!
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ECPAT UK Festive Appeal – Big Give For over 30 years ECPAT UK has been campaigning against child exploitation and lobbying for laws and policies to protect …

We are delighted to be taking part in the
@biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge with the support of The Childhood Trust.

Our appeal goes live at noon when your donation is DOUBLED for one week only!

Donate before 18:00 tomorrow to enter our prize raffle

▶️ bit.ly/ECPATUKFesti...

More Than Words (wɜːdz): a festive evening of art and reflection This event will bring together child trafficking advocates, artists, and supporters to celebrate the power of words and creative expression

🌟Join us next week!

Celebrate the power of creative expression and support our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge

@kazzumarts.bsky.social Pathways exhibition too!

📍 Oxford House E2 6HG, UK
📅 03.12.25
⏰ 18:00
🎟 Discussion| Art | Raffle

Book! ▶ bit.ly/morethanw3dz

It’s so depressing that ECPAT & Missing People are once again needing to raise the alarm over trafficked and unaccompanied children going missing from care in the U.K. They’ve been highlighting this problem for years and it’s such a serious safeguarding issue.

Fresh data in this new study Until Harm Ends shows that despite previous recommendations, significant gaps remain in the protection and support offered to these children.

Read the full report here ➡️ www.ecpat.org.uk/until-harm-e...

The report follows up on the 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 the second and third study, Still in Harm’s Way and When Harm Remains which confirmed these findings.

In 2024, 37% of trafficked children and 13% of unaccompanied children living in care went missing.

Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/muthv2ph

More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government

A new report from ECPAT UK and Missing People shows that more than 2,000 trafficked and/or unaccompanied children went missing from care in the UK in 2024. These children are at particularly high risk of exploitation and other types of harm when missing.

Read the story ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdz9bzwe

Positive Results for Local NRM Panels, but Thousands of Child Victims Remain Outside the Pilot Newly published Home Office National Referral Mechanism (NRM) data shows that the pilot scheme that transfers decision making about potential child victims of trafficking from central government to lo...

We analysed new data which shows that the pilot scheme transferring decisions of child victims of trafficking from central government to local authorities has been positive, yet gaps remain for children outside of pilot areas as well as those deemed not admissible.

➡️ tinyurl.com/y8ky3wwy

We are delighted to work with our friends @kazzumarts.bsky.social and to be attending the launch event today for the Pathways Art Show with amazing young artists from across London including @weareyoungroots.bsky.social @praxisprojects.bsky.social

Find out more 👉 www.kazzum.org/pathways-art...

Fund our Residentials ECPAT UK’s retreats help trafficked young people heal through nature, play, and connection. With your support, we can give them safety, rest, and hope. Help us give child victims a safe space to breat...

Child victims of trafficking need the chance to rest, play, reflect, and hope for the future.

Our annual residential trips can be a lifeline.

One young person said:

‘I feel like I have found myself again.’

Help us fund them if you can

bit.ly/48Tp7yr

Care for child victims of trafficking: transitions at 18, safe accommodation, and homelessness - 14/10/2025 09:30:00 This is a new FREE one day training course, for all frontline professionals who are working with child victims of trafficking across a broad range of services. It will focus on the long-term support a...

📅 FREE TRAINING - 14th and 21st October 2025

Care for child victims of trafficking: transitions at 18, safe accommodation, and homelessness

A new one day course, for all working with child victims with a focus on the long-term support and advocacy needs.

www.ecpat.org.uk/Event/transi...

UK party leaders urged to end ‘pernicious currents’ of hatred fuelling anti-migrant protests More than 200 refugee groups, charities and unions sign letter calling for action after weeks of protests outside asylum hotels

With 200+ other organisations as part of the refugeestogether.bsky.social we signed the Open Letter to all UK politicians, asking them to stop using demonising, hostile and dangerous rhetoric and model respect, dignity and unity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

#refugeestogether

Fund our Residentials ECPAT UK’s retreats help trafficked young people heal through nature, play, and connection. With your support, we can give them safety, rest, and hope. Help us give child victims a safe space to breat...

🌳💜Our residentials provide a vital space for young victims of trafficking to heal, connect, and grow in confidence.

Experiences build trust, community, and emotional resilience but they rely on generous funding.

Please support if you can
👉justgiving.com/campaign/fundourresidentials

🚨 New report from @ecpatuk.bsky.social : More Than Words found some UK definitions of human trafficking focus on travel, which leads to narrower thresholds and excluding children exploited online or locally, particularly British children.

📖 Read it here: https://bit.ly/4nTZDpP
#ChildTrafficking

NEW RESEARCH!
Inconsistent definitions of child exploitation are undermining the identification and protection of children who were exploited in forms such as sexual, labour and criminal exploitation, or domestic servitude.
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www.modernslaverypec.org/resources/de...

🚨 New report from @ecpatuk.bsky.social 'More Than Words' found that over 61% of child referrals as potential victims of human trafficking were rejected on the grounds that the case did not meet the definitional threshold required to proceed.

📖 Read it here: bit.ly/4nTZDpP

#ChildTrafficking

Report art by the amazing T.B. -artist and ECPAT UK Youth Advisory Group member

The report calls on the government to:
🔸 Introduce a child exploitation definition and strategy
🔸 Align legal definitions with international standards
🔸 Introduce independent review mechanisms to scrutinise NRM decision-making
📖 Read it here: bit.ly/4nTZDpP

👉 Other affected nationalities of children with very high rates of definition based refusals include 35% for Sudanese, 30% for Albanian, and 25% for Eritrean.

👉 There are significant issues in Home Office decisions for some nationalities with UK children receiving 7% negative decisions for not meeting definitions in contrast to 59% for Iranian children and 43% for Afghani.

👉 We also found some UK definitions of human trafficking focus on travel, which leads to narrower thresholds and excluding children exploited online or locally, particularly British children.
#ChildTrafficking

👉 The report also found that definitions are undermining the identification and protection of children who were exploited in forms such as sexual, labour and criminal exploitation, or domestic servitude.