An Overview of Child Trafficking, Modern Slavery & Exploitation

This online course provides a detailed overview of child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation in the UK, supporting practitioners to identify and effectively safeguard child victims. Read more
Care for child victims of trafficking: Safe accommodation and missing from care

This online training course focuses on the specific challenges of accommodating victims of trafficking & separated children seeking asylum. Split into two half-day modules, this course provides an overview of child trafficking & modern slavery, giving participants an understanding of the key issues affecting victims. You will consider principles of safe accommodation & transitions support, & discuss practical tools to prevent and respond to missing incidents in line with best practice guidance. Read more
Care for child victims of trafficking: transitions at 18, safe accommodation, and homelessness

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 and advocacy needs of victims of child trafficking. Read more

Training

"ECPAT UK helped me view life from the victim's perspective, making the reality of our job worthy." Social worker, London

Why Choose ECPAT UK Training?

ECPAT UK’s multidisciplinary team offers a wide range of training courses for individuals and organisations relating to children's rights to protection and lives free from exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery. As well as the training courses offered below, we can provide bespoke training to your organisation to ensure it is tailored and relevant to your work.

ECPAT UK has delivered training courses for 30 years to build frontline workers' capacity and improve responses to child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation across the UK. Our comprehensive training programme has been created in line with National Occupational Standards and many of our courses are CPD accredited.

Our training courses:

An Overview of Child Exploitation, Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Care for Child Victims of Trafficking: Safe Accommodation and Missing from Care
Child Criminal Exploitation and Trafficking
Child Trafficking and Spiritual Abuse
Child Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Exploitation: Advanced Training
Housing and Homelessness Prevention (under development)

Commissioned Bespoke Training Courses

ECPAT UK delivers bespoke training sessions to organisations who commission these services. A number of Local Safeguarding Children Boards commission our training on a rolling basis, endorsing the standard and quality of our services.

How Delivery Works

ECPAT UK’s training courses usually consist of two half-day modules completed over Zoom or one full day face to face.

Guest Speakers, Conference Presentations, and Workshops

We are the leading experts on child trafficking in the UK and provide professional guest speakers to present at conferences, participate in panel discussions, lead specialist workshops and contribute to debates.

How to Book:

Step 1: Submit enquiry form via [email protected] with your goals, audience, and preferred dates.
Step 2: We tailor outline and quote within 2 working days.
Step 3: Confirm and receive learner pack and joining info.

Note: We apply the same base rate across courses, but we price by duration and your type/size of organisation. There is no VAT charged on top of these fees.

We are pleased to offer discounts for multiple team member bookings.

Get Involved!

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to discuss your organisation's needs further.

Let's work together to ensure every child is protected.

An Overview of Child Trafficking, Modern Slavery & Exploitation

This online course provides a detailed overview of child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation in the UK, supporting practitioners to identify and effectively safeguard child victims. Read more

Care for child victims of trafficking: Safe accommodation and missing from care

This online training course focuses on the specific challenges of accommodating victims of trafficking & separated children seeking asylum. Split into two half-day modules, this course provides an overview of child trafficking & modern slavery, giving participants an understanding of the key issues affecting victims. You will consider principles of safe accommodation & transitions support, & discuss practical tools to prevent and respond to missing incidents in line with best practice guidance. Read more

Care for child victims of trafficking: transitions at 18, safe accommodation, and homelessness

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 and advocacy needs of victims of child trafficking. Read more

Latest

Joint response to the King's Speech announcement of reforms to the modern slavery framework

Following the announcement In the King's Speech that the new Immigration and Asylum Bill will include reforms to the modern slavery legislative framework, leading organisations and experts warn the government that it cannot end human trafficking and modern slavery without a safeguarding-first response to all victims and survivors that shifts the balance of risk decisively onto traffickers
Child Trafficking Survivors Warn: Government Proposals Will Put Vulnerable Children at Risk

The ECPAT UK Youth Advisory Group has issued a strong response to the King’s Speech with the announcement of a new Immigration and Asylum Bill as part of the government’s ongoing plans to reform the asylum and immigration system. The group raises the alarm about the impact on child victims of trafficking of major changes which will make identification and protection of victims harder.
An Overview of Child Trafficking, Modern Slavery & Exploitation

This online course provides a detailed overview of child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation in the UK, supporting practitioners to identify and effectively safeguard child victims.
ECPAT UK welcomes GRETA’s Fourth Evaluation Report and urges Government to act on urgent child‑specific recommendations

ECPAT UK welcomes the publication of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) Fourth Evaluation Round report on the United Kingdom, which delivers urgent and detailed child‑focused recommendations for the United Kingdom. GRETA’s report draws significantly on ECPAT UK’s research, reflecting our long‑standing evidence of systemic failures in the UK’s response to child trafficking and exploitation.

What is child trafficking?
Child trafficking statistics

The latest data on the number of victims of trafficking in the UK and worldwide.
National Referral Mechanism

The National Referral Mechanism is a process set up by the Government to identify and support victims of trafficking in the UK. It was born out of the Government's obligation to identify victims under the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Human Trafficking, which came into force on 1 February 2008.
Volunteer

ECPAT UK relies on committed volunteers to support the work that we do. Without their help, we would not be able to campaign as effectively against child exploitation.
The Secret Gardeners: New film on child trafficking from Vietnam

The Secret Gardeners aims to inform professionals about the plight of children who are forced by organised crime gangs to grow drugs in houses across the UK but who often face criminalisation and prison.
Our team

ECPAT UK's team has more than 30 years' experience working on issues of child trafficking, child protection, child sexual exploitation, unaccompanied children, modern slavery and more.
About us

ECPAT UK is a leading children's rights organisation working to protect children from child trafficking and transnational child exploitation. We support children everywhere to uphold their rights and to live a life free from abuse and exploitation.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty that grants all children and young people (aged 17 and under) a comprehensive set of rights. The UK signed the Convention on 19 April 1990, ratified it on 16 December 1991 and it came into force on 15 January 1992.
Contact us

If you have an immediate concern about a child's welfare, please contact your local council's social care department, who are available 24 hours a day. For all other enquiries related to our work, contact [email protected] or call 020 7607 2136.
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto (including the Palermo Protocol)

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto is the main international legal instrument in the fight against transnational organised crime, including human trafficking.

More than Words: how definitions impact on the UK’s response to child trafficking and exploitation

This report highlights how overlaps and gaps in terminology, and how they have created confusion and definitional instabilitythat hinders effective identification and intervention. These inconsistencies impact frontline practice, from safeguarding to policing and prosecution, resulting in missed opportunities to protect children from harm. Read more

ECPAT UK welcomes GRETA’s Fourth Evaluation Report and urges Government to act on urgent child‑specific recommendations

ECPAT UK welcomes the publication of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) Fourth Evaluation Round report on the United Kingdom, which delivers urgent and detailed child‑focused recommendations for the United Kingdom. GRETA’s report draws significantly on ECPAT UK’s research, reflecting our long‑standing evidence of systemic failures in the UK’s response to child trafficking and exploitation. Read more