Child victims of modern slavery - 376/2020

My requests relate to the procedure of interviewing potential child victims of modern slavery/human trafficking and is a refinement of a previous FOI response (Reference Number: 333/2020).

I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide the following information within the specified timeframes:

1. From April 2018 to April 2020, have you conducted any joint interviews of child trafficking victims with a team composed of both your police force and a social worker?

2. Please could you also provide information on where these interviews are most likely to take place?

3. Please detail if this police force and the local children's services department in your area are co-located (to mean not only physically located together, but also the sharing of case management systems and processes).

4. Please provide a copy of any policy, guidance, training and/or instruction document on the use of joint interviewing for police officers and social workers in your Local Authority area.

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