ABSTRACT
Identification of children as victims of trafficking is a challenge for everybody who might come into contact with exploited children: the competent authorities, NGO service providers as well as any citizen. This chapter discusses a major challenge related to the identification of trafficked children, namely coordination and cooperation, the development of a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for child victims of trafficking in Austria and good practice of cooperation and coordination in Austria. The EU report confirms that identifying children who are victims of trafficking and establishing their true identities is a growing problem, as their vulnerability makes them a preferred target for traffickers. Representatives of the child- and youth-care authority of Tyrol were active members in the Working Group on Child Trafficking of the Federal Taskforce from the very beginning. Drehscheibe has established as a crisis center for unaccompanied children arriving in Vienna from other countries, including asylum-seeking children and trafficked children.
