ECPAT UK Children's Champion 2025: nomination deadline extended!

ECPAT UK’s Children’s Champion 2025

We’re pleased to open this year’s public nominations for our Children’s Champion for 2025.

ECPAT UK' Children's Champion award recognises someone who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to trafficked children.

The winner will be selected by our panel of young people, staff members and trustees.

You can read about previous Children's Champion award winners here.

About the Children’s Champion award

Our Children’s Champion is selected based on their unique attributes, achievements and contributions to child victims of trafficking.

In particular, we are looking for those who demonstrate the following competencies that are central to ECPAT UK’s values:

Child centredness – by this we mean behaviours and environments which respect children and young people as active agents in their own lives with rights to be and feel protected, to be provided for and to actively participate in all matters affecting them
Kindness – by this we mean actions, behaviour and communication that is devoid of judgement and actively shows an understanding of the impact of trauma, abuse and other life experiences
Advocacy – by this we mean standing up with and for children and young people in the face of adverse and hostile systems and decision makers to ensure that they are heard, respected and supported

Nominations are open to anyone who works with or for children and young people affected by trafficking, including (but not limited to):

Foster carers
Residential staff
Support workers
Social workers
Independent Child Trafficking Guardians
Lawyers
Campaigners
Community organisers
Fundraisers

How to enter

Anyone can nominate an individual for our Children’s Champion 2025 award.

Simply copy and paste the form below into an email (providing details of your nominee and their attributes, achievements and contributions to child victims of trafficking) and then send to [email protected] by midday on Friday 27th February 2026.

Each nominee will be scored against their demonstrations of the three key characteristics outlined above: Child centredness, Kindness and Advocacy.

Form

My name:

My email address:

My nomination for the 2025 Children’s Champion is:

Email address for my nominee (if known):

Telephone number for my nominee (if known):

Please tell us in no more than 500 words why you are nominating this person, using our three scoring criteria of child-centredness, kindness and advocacy:

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We look forward to receiving your nominations!

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