Frances Trevena

Frances Trevena is a barrister who has worked on issues relating to violence against women and girls for the last seven years. She has particular experience of immigration and violence, including human trafficking. She has also conducted work for families who are destitute as a result of having no recourse to public funds. She was part of the advisory board to the NRPF Network’s toolkit for families accessing financial support. Previously, she worked on these issues at Rights of Women, providing training, legal advice and writing legal guides on Women, Families and Article 8 and Trafficking and NRM and Children and the Law, Relocation, Holidays and Abduction.

In 2015, she set up and managed Poppy Legal, a legal advice centre and strategic litigation hub connected to the Eaves’ Poppy Project for trafficked women until its closure last year. She represented the project at the EU Civil Society Platform on Trafficking in Human Beings and spoke on human trafficking to a wide range of organisations and professionals. She is currently the chair of the Refugee Children’s Consortium and as head of policy and programmes at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, works on a broad range of policy issues affecting migrant children and young people.

She holds an LLM in Law and Gender and is a trustee for the Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens (PRCBC)