What's in it?
This draft guidance - produced jointly by the Home Office and the Department for Children, Schools and Families - aims to provide practitioners with the most "up to date best practice" in identifying and safeguarding children and young people who may have been trafficked.
Plans include:
Guidance on how to identify trafficked children, as well as how to deal with children who may have been trafficked, such as appointing Criminal Records Bureau-approved interpreters or providing safe placements for victims of trafficking.
What people say about it:
Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at The Children's Society, says the joint consultation sends out a "clear message" that trafficked children and young people should be "viewed as children first". But she adds that the document does not really address how the immigration process works.
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