Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether all unaccompanied children they have brought to the UK from the Jungle camp in Calais are assessed by social workers or specialist charities for human trafficking or modern slavery indicators immediately upon their arrival.
Asylum claimants who display possible indicators of trafficking are referred to the National Referral Mechanism by the appropriate First Responders. Those unaccompanied asylum seeking children who have recently been brought to the UK from Calais are assessed on arrival by Home Office officials who are trained to identify indicators of human trafficking or modern slavery and who are working closely with social workers and specialist organisations. Safeguarding checks are conducted before children brought to the UK in accordance with the Dublin Regulation are allowed to join relatives.