YES - Hannah Pearce, policy and advocacy manager, ECPAT UK
Children who have been trafficked are children first and foremost, and as such should be looked after by local authority children's services. This is a straightforward responsibility under the Children Act.
While the Home Office has a key strategic role in co-ordinating the UK's response to human trafficking this should not extend to the responsibility for the welfare of individual children.
Trafficking is a complex subject and necessarily involves co-ordination between several government departments, but the support for these children needs to be clearly managed by one department, the DCLG.
NO - Susie Ramsay, policy adviser, The Children's Society
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