Online Lent Course 2026
Last year in the UK children made up 25% of victims of modern slavery, as logged by the UK’s National Referral Mechanism – 5,999 children! In response, Chris Elliott (the Southwark Diocese lead on modern slavery) and Rev Hazel Forecast (Methodist Minister in Redhill) are leading an on-line 6-week course Children in the Shadows Revisited, prepared by the Clewer Initiative. If you can’t get to your local church Lent course – or in addition to it – you would be welcome to join us.
Using short films, insight from frontline experts, examples of good practice, reflections arising from Luke 18, and discussion points, each session will explore a different aspect of child exploitation:
- The shocking truth about children & modern slavery in the UK
- The generational impact: how children of modern slavery victims are affected
- Behind the Screen: protecting children from online grooming and exploitation
- ‘County lines’ in 2026 and how parents can respond
- Fighting county lines in our schools
- The global picture: children and modern slavery across the world
The course will run 7.30-9.00pm each Tuesday from 24th February to 31st March
To obtain the online link (or to register to attend in person at the same times at St John the Evangelist church centre, Earlswood), email rasocialjustice@gmail.com.