The revised Working Together guidance will fail to protect child trafficking victims a group of charities has warned Education Secretary Michael Gove. In a letter to Gove, the charities, which include Ecpat UK and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, said that the lack of references to trafficking in the slimmed-down guidance risked sowing confusion among frontline professionals about how to address the problem. “Most frontline practitioners receive little or no training on how to identify child victims of trafficking,” said Chloe Setter, advocacy officer at Ecpat. “This revised guidance will worsen what is already an unacceptable situation.” The new Working Together guidance came into force today.
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