December 11, 2024

Ready, Willing and Able: Latest report sets out how access to work prevents re-exploitation

 

Kalayaan has published the fourth of five ‘mini reports’ on the right to work in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). The series of reports highlights the benefits to be gained by the UK and survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery if every adult in the NRM was granted the right to work.

“Report 4: Preventing Re-Exploitation” highlights how the current system may result in some survivors being re-exploited while in the NRM, and it shows how granting survivors the right to work could prevent this risk of re-exploitation

Kalayaan’s Sophie Levack drafted this series of reports with Caroline Lewis of Saltworks Law. They have addressed this series of reports to MPs and urge the Government to make a small change in policy to allow this work force to contribute to the UK economy and use work to help them recover from their previous exploitation.