One in three suspected modern slavery victims identified by authorities are not referred for

includes a series of changes to modern slavery support, which home secretary Priti Patel claims will

The number of suspected modern slavery victims in the UK has risen to its highest level in more

victim of modern slavery.... Her case will now be investigated further by the government before a

scheduled modern slavery trial.He had previously pleaded not guilty to conspiring with his father, Peter

vulnerabilities “ exacerbated ” under Priti Patel’s new immigration plans, the UK’s modern slavery tsar

Women and girls are forced into prostitution, young boys made to commit criminal acts and men kept in appalling conditions for slave-labour.... For foreign offenders, the bar is set low: any conviction-for any offence at any time, anywhere in the world-carrying a sentence of 12 months. Yet we know that traffickers frequently force their victims to commit offences against their will.... That covers people who are a national security threat and is a principle with which we would all agree....

I’ve done nothing wrong since I’ve been here, now they’re telling me I’m going back to prison.... I’d be going back to suffer.” Karen Doyle, of campaign group Movement for Justice, said: “ Deciding to move vulnerable detainees, potential victims of trafficking who have finished their sentence, back to prison is torture.... “ The idea that once you’ve been recognised as a possible victim of exploitation you are supposed to begin your recovery period from prison is nonsensical, ” they added.“ Ma

this to be a turning point in the UK’s mission to eradicate slavery and human trafficking in supply

should not be held responsible for historical slavery. Even its supporters recognise that establishing an