Cut them free blog

Miriam Gonzalez-Durantez, Partner of international legal practice Dechert and Deputy PM’s wife, has written an article first featured in the The Times about her impassioned connection to Barnardo’s Cut them free campaign.

Read Tim’s story about being sexually exploited as a teenager and how he has been able to escape this life through Barnardo’s help.

Laura Payne, Head of Campaigns at Barnardo’s, talks about all that we’ve made happen in the last year and urges us all to keep on campaigning…our job isn’t done yet.

Read Jacqui Montgomery-Devlin talk about her work helping children who have been sexually exploited and the level of understanding of the issue in Northern Ireland

Gloria Stott, Children’s services manager with Barnardo’s Young Women’s Project in North London, tells us why her work is so important and why our ‘Cut them free campaign’ means a lot to her.

We held events at all three of the main conferences this year, with high profile panel members, including Barnardo’s Chief Executive Anne Marie Carrie, Baroness Floella Benjamin, and at the Conservative conference, Government Minister Tim Loughton...

Our new research has allowed us to look at what might happen if young people who have been sexually exploited don’t receive specialist support, and how this might affect the risks posed to them and the associated cost implications...

My name is Daljeet Dagon and I am the Children’s Services Manager with Barnardo’s Safer Choices – a sexual exploitation and missing service based in Glasgow, Scotland.

I have been with Barnardo’s for 13 years and have primarily been involved in sexual exploitation and child protection services...