Hidden children
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Hidden children are migrants under 18-years-old who are separated from their usual carers and are exploited or otherwise mistreated by the people who are responsible for them in the UK. ‘Hidden’ is intended to refer to the unseen nature of the exploitation, the lack of awareness about these young people and the fact that exploiters deliberately act to keep them and their treatment hidden. Under the 2000 Palermo Protocol, these young people would usually be considered to have been trafficked t...
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