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To care or not to care?

21 May 2009 / Mark Jarman
Issue: 7370 / Categories: Features , Public , Child law , Family , Immigration & asylum
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Mark Jarman assesses the impact of the Hague Convention & BIIR on public law proceedings

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In January 2008, police raided a property in Slough. They arrested a number of Romanian adults and found 13 children in a single property, some very small babies. One of them was a 13-year-old, E, who had been trafficked to England from a small village in Eastern Romania. She was a Roma gypsy who had fl own to England with two other unrelated adults on a ticket paid for with a stolen American credit card. Once E was in England she was made to sell the Big Issue for up to 12 hours per day on the streets.

The local authority became involved and commenced care proceedings. E was consequently made the subject of an interim care order.

E's father, Mr S, few to the UK within 24 hours of E going into police protection. He was arrested and charged with trafficking and exploitation pursuant to the

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