Early Intervention to Prevent Modern Slavery & Exploitation of Care-Experienced Young People in the UK: What Works & What is Needed?
Care-experienced children and young people face some of the highest risks of exploitation in the UK, yet intervention too often comes only after harm has occurred. Produced by Justice & Care and Royal Holloway, University of London, this comprehensive report draws on findings from an Expert Roundtable Day that brought together 40 experts by experience and senior leaders from across government, social care, policing, education, mental health, housing, civil society and academia to explore what more effective early intervention should look like. Combining evidence, lived experience, practice insights, and recent case studies, the report calls for earlier, relationship-based and genuinely trauma-informed responses which are directly shaped by lived experience, to better protect vulnerable children and young people before exploitation takes hold.