Crime Reduction Toolkits

Trafficking of People

Children

• contribute to joint inter-agency profiling of victims/potential victims;
   
• identification of inappropriate ‘relatives’ or sponsors;
   
• identify victims/potential victims, according to an agreed inter-agency profile;
   
• make referral to the responsible local authority’s Social Services Department, share information and contribute to the assessment of risk undertaken by the social workers;
   
• advise the responsible police authority and supply any intelligence information available;
   
• undertake interviews, receive and seek intelligence, undertake investigations, log intelligence material and ensure links made to colleague immigration officers nationally and internationally;
   
• participate where required in local inter-agency child protection networks to develop joint approaches and contribute to wider fora as appropriate;
   
• ensure that children are cared for prior to social services collecting them.