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ECPAT UK
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We campaign against child trafficking and transnational child exploitation so children everywhere can uphold their rights and live a life free from abuse.
📣 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 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...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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:
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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...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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

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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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!! 👇
🔊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
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...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🔊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
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...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🕕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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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...
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 …
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December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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...
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 …
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December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🌟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
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
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November 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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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.
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
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
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November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
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
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November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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.

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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...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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

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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...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📅 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...
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🌳💜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
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...
www.justgiving.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by ECPAT UK
🚨 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
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July 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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...
July 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by ECPAT UK
🚨 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
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July 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🚨 New report: 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
👇Thread👇
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July 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
New report by @HelenBamber, @ATLEU_UK & @ECPATUK

- just 4% of trafficking survivors got permission to stay in the UK for their recovery/to assist the police in 2024
- of 699 confirmed child victims, less than 5 received temporary permission to stay as victims
🚨 Thousands of trafficking survivors continue to be denied permission to stay in the UK despite their critical need for safety and support — a new report by @helenbamber.bsky.social, ATLEU & @ecpatuk.bsky.social reveals.

Instead survivors are left in fear and at risk of further exploitation. 🧵1/3
July 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sign up for this FREE lunchtime seminar to mark the launch of our research report -

More than Words: how definitions impact on the UK’s response to child trafficking and exploitation
NEW EVENT! Definitions of child exploitation.

📅 Tue 22 July, 12.30
👩‍💻 Presentation: Laura Duran, @ecpatuk.bsky.social
👩‍💻 Opening: Eleanor Lyons, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
👩‍💻 Closing: Patricia Durr, ECPAT UK.

👇
www.modernslaverypec.org/latest/lunch...
July 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We welcome the proposed repeal of key sections of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 in the new Borders Bill, yet we remain concerned for children from retained laws and proposals on new offences which may see children further criminalised.

See our statement:
➡️ www.ecpat.org.uk/News/ecpat-u...
ECPAT UK Statement on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
ECPAT UK welcomes the proposed repeals introduced as part of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, including the repeal of the Safety of Rwanda Act 2023 and key sections of the Illegal Mig...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by ECPAT UK
Now more than ever, we need this statement on grooming narratives.

Today, we are joined by 70+ survivors, academics, charities and experts on exploitation calling an end to damaging stereotypes and the start of real support for victims and survivors:

afterexploitation.com/2025/01/15/j...
January 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM