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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Faster support for child exploitation victims in UK as pilot scheme widened

New areas are joining a pilot to help ensure faster decision-making on cases of child exploitation (Alamy/PA) -

Child victims of exploitation and human trafficking in Northern Ireland Birmingham and Edinburgh are to get support sooner, in an expanded scheme to protect young people across the UK from modern slavery.

They are among eight new areas being brought under a pilot which the Government said is reducing lengthy waiting times for children to get the help they need.

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