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Research published in 2015, following the announcement of the government's 'Modern Slavery Strategy', [116] had estimated the number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK to be around 10–13 thousand, [114] of whom roughly 7–10 thousand were currently unrecorded (given that 2,744 confirmed cases were known to the National Crime ...
On 31 January 2017 it had 10,153 companies with statements held within its open data register, making it the largest modern slavery statement register globally. [12] In 2019 the UK Government committed to publishing a Modern Slavery Statement of its own, reflecting the requirements imposed on larger businesses under section 54 of the 2015 Act.
A 73-year-old ethnic Indian Singaporean man, Aravindan Balakrishnan, and a 67-year-old Tanzanian [3] woman, his wife, Chanda Pattni, had been investigated for slavery and domestic servitude. [4] [5] The case centred around the Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought commune which was led by Balakrishnan. In the early 1980s ...
The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year
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Hope for Justice worked with West Midlands Police on the largest modern slavery prosecution in UK history, in which a gang thought to be responsible for trafficking up to 400 victims was jailed. [19] Hope for Justice identified the first victims, leading to the whole network being uncovered, and eventually supported scores more. [20]
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