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CEOP - Latest trends in child trafficking
Posted: 27/10/2011
The UK’s national centre for child protection – the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre –has published its latest understanding of the trends, themes and patterns that it feels lies behind the trafficking of children into and within the UK.
The publication coincides with International Anti Slavery Day.
Compiling referral data from both the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) and the NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice and Information Line (CTAIL), the organisation says that out of the 202 nationally recorded cases that it looked at, the prevalence of cannabis cultivation, benefit fraud and domestic servitude remain amongst the primary reasons for trafficking – but all remain behind sexual exploitation which accounted for just over a quarter (53) of the cases analysed.
For further information and to see the full report please see –
http://ceop.police.uk/Media-Centre/Press-releases/2011/Latest-trends-in-child-trafficking/