Child abduction and cross-border child protection

International child protection cases. Guidance on working with foreign agencies, caring for trafficked children.

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Services

• Find help to get your child back from abroad or arrange contact

  How to apply to have your child returned if they've been abducted, or arrange contact or enforce a court order in EU, Hague Convention and non-Hague Convention countries

• Stop someone getting a passport

  You might be able to stop someone getting a passport by applying for a court order - parental child abduction, vulnerable adults

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Guidance and regulation

• Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery
  • Statutory guidance
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
• Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked
  • Guidance
  • 18 October 2011
  • Department for Education and Home Office
• Cross-border child protection cases: the 1996 Hague Convention
  • Guidance
  • 5 January 2021
  • Department for Education
• Child protection: working with foreign authorities
  • Guidance
  • 12 September 2014
  • Department for Education
• Morocco: parental child abduction
  • Guidance
  • 1 July 2021
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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News and communications

Modern Slavery conference in Uruguay

16 November 2018 — World news story

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Research and statistics

• Support for non-EEA migrant child victims of modern slavery
  • 19 December 2017
  • Department for Education and Home Office
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Care of unaccompanied and trafficked children
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 17 March 2017
• Safeguarding unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children
  • 1 November 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Home Office
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• HM Passport Office
• Official Solicitor and Public Trustee