We would like to invite you to complete this research survey, which is part of ECPAT UK’s research project ‘More than words: how definitions impact on the UK’s response to child trafficking’. The survey is designed to gather information from professionals working in child protection across the UK.

The research project aims to better understand the complexities and nuances around the overlapping and sometimes unclear definitions in the field of modern slavery in the UK and how the definitions of child trafficking and various forms of child exploitation (in particular – criminal, sexual, labour and domestic servitude) impact the UK’s response to this type of crime. The research seeks to understand the application and impact of these definitions on practice, from the perspectives of young people with lived experience and the frontline professionals who support them, in order to identify best practice and develop UK policy recommendations.  

Survey for professionals on the definitions of various forms of child exploitation