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In March 2020, released British police records showed that the number of modern slavery offences recorded has increased by more than 50%, from 3,412 cases in 2018 to 5,144 cases in 2019. This coincided with a 68% increase in calls and submissions to the modern slavery helpline over the same time period. [134]
Forced labour is a leading type of modern slavery in adults. [8] [124] County lines drug trafficking has become a leading form of criminal child exploitation. [8] Males have been found to be affected more often, both among adults and children. [8] [125] As modern slavery is a hidden crime, its true prevalence is difficult to measure. [125]
A report by a House of Lords committee, published in October, said there were an estimated 130,000 victims of modern slavery in Britain. "When the Modern Slavery Act was passed in 2015, the UK was ...
This is a list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the year 2022. In 2022 Lord Reed is the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge is the Deputy President. The table lists judgments made by the court and the opinions of the judges in each case.
The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year
Modern slavery cases surged in the first half of this year to about 820 by the end of June, compared to about 1,013 in the whole of 2016. Slavery is thriving on London's building sites and in ...
On 21 November 2013, Metropolitan Police from South London's Human Trafficking Unit arrested two suspects at a residential address in Lambeth.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.
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