Activists have warned that the United Kingdom lacks a proper strategy to fight modern-day children slavery as thousands of children are now victims of abuse and trafficking in the country.
The Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG), a group of charities, said Tuesday that the UK government was unable to formulate an integrated policy to fight children enslavement, adding that a fragmented approach to the issue and lack of specialist care had caused a record number of young victims to suffer from enslavement in the UK.
The ATMG said Britain was more focused to provide help to children who have been exploited by modern slavers, including those who have been raped and forced to move drugs from cities to rural areas. It added, however, that the government had no clear prevention strategy and there was no standard training program for many frontline professionals such as doctors, teachers and social workers who treat the vulnerable children….