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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is not doing enough to protect children who are trafficked into the country to work in the sex industry or as slave labour, two rights groups said in a report on Thursday.
Care and protection of such children is inconsistent across the regions and in some cases non-existent, they said.
Compared with other countries, Britain was being slow to stamp out the crime of trafficking.
The report called for trafficked children to be given renewable residence permits so that they can stay in the country to recover from abuses.
David Bull, executive director of UNICEF UK one of the co-authors of the study, said trafficking of children is a global problem and that every year 1.2 million of them become victims of the crime.
"They are secretly transported across borders and sold like commodities or trafficked within countries for the sole purpose of exploitation," he said.
Once in Britain, some were destined to work as sex slaves and others as domestic servants or in sweatshops.
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