The deep connection between poverty and modern slavery is well-known. Poverty can make people extremely vulnerable to traffickers – meaning that economic empowerment is key to preventing trafficking, and to diminishing the risk of re-trafficking. Determined to tackle the root causes of this horrendous crime, one focus of Justice and

Louise Gleich, Senior Policy Researcher at Justice and Care and the Centre for Social Justice’s Modern Slavery Policy Unit, reflects on our new report, At What Cost? Exploring the Impact Of Forced Labour in the UK. It is easy to think of slavery as something that is very far away.

October 18th is Anti-Slavery Day – a day the UK unites to stand in solidarity with the 50 million people trapped in modern slavery worldwide. Slavery is all around us, flourishing in plain sight. But Anti-Slavery Day is a chance for us all to come together to raise awareness and

Three traffickers who exploited 16 victims, with many of them forced to work at a McDonald’s branch and a bakery that supplied major supermarkets like Tesco and Asda, have been jailed for a combined total of 26 years. The sentencing comes after many of the survivors bravely gave evidence against