cover image: At what cost? Exploring the impact of forced labour in the UK

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At what cost? Exploring the impact of forced labour in the UK

17 Oct 2024

Utilising the experience of frontline practitioners, developing creative and evidence-based ideas, fostering a new understanding of the scale of the crime and listening to the voices of survivors, the Modern Slavery Policy Unit works to catalyse the political leadership needed to achieve systemic change. [...] The views and recommendations in this report are those of the Centre for Social Justice and Justice and Care and do not necessarily represent those of the persons and research participants mentioned above or quoted in the report. [...] If they don’t have the right qualifications, their work might be unsafe.” Victim Navigator, Justice and Care The rise in reports of exploitation of workers in adult social care raises particular concern given the vulnerability of those receiving care and the severity of the consequences if exploited workers are unable to provide the level of care needed. [...] In the largest modern slavery prosecution in the UK to date, Operation Fort, it is reported that the criminals made a profit of £2 million between 2012 and 2017.28 “In the Operation Fort case, the modern slavery was happening in West Bromwich - one of the most deprived areas of the country. [...] 32 At what cost? Exploring the impact of forced labour in the UK This manipulation of the need to work and the “hidden in plain sight” nature of forced labour in the regular economy may be one of the reasons that the majority of victims of this type of exploitation are not only adults but adults between the ages of 25 and 54.
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