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The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (c. 30) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is designed to combat modern slavery in the UK and consolidates previous offences relating to trafficking and slavery. The act extends essentially to England and Wales, but some provisions (for example, relating to modern slavery statements and cross ...
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]
The treatment by the Home Office of an individual who had applied for an extension of his skilled worker visa in good time and which had been refused on the basis that the Secretary of State had revoked the licence of his sponsoring employer without informing the individual, was unfair. [42] Stoffel & Co v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42: 30 October 2020
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 ...
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 ...
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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]
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.