Slavery: Children
(asked on 19th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children under 16 years of age were, in 2015, removed from premises where they were being exploited as modern slaves or had been victims of people trafficking.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 12th January 2017
Modern slavery including the trafficking of children is an abhorrent crime and this Government is committed to tackling it. The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK’s approach to identifying and supporting all victims of modern slavery.
In 2015 there were a total of 365 children under the age of 16 who were identified as potentially trafficked via an NRM referral.