Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 5
5
Deferred
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Accelerate development of an overhauled Modern Slavery Strategy with child-specific and financial crime actions.
Conclusion
The Home Office, working together with key human trafficking sector partners, criminal justice practitioners and survivors, must accelerate and scale up efforts to develop a new and overhauled Modern Slavery Strategy. This should include actions to address all forms of exploitation, including the increasing prevalence of criminal exploitation of children and adults, and exploitation facilitated by technology. To identify better the proceeds from trafficking crimes, the new Strategy should include actions to enhance partnerships with financial intelligence, the financial services industry and financial regulators. A child-specific strategy should also be developed to take account of children’s specific needs and vulnerabilities.
Government Response Summary
The government acknowledges the importance of a new strategy and will resume publishing an Annual Report on Modern Slavery, but only states it will "consider delivering a new modern slavery strategy," effectively deferring the main recommendation.
Paragraph Reference:
31
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
17. We share the Committee’s focus on the importance of a strategy to guide work tackling this crime. As set out in the introduction, the UK’s response to modern slavery is underpinned by the Modern Slavery Strategy 2014 as well as the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and subsequent legislation. 18. This year the Government will resume publication of an Annual Report on Modern Slavery to set out our strategic approach to tackling modern slavery, and ensure the work being done to tackle this crime is shared and monitored. We will continue to work closely with stakeholders to inform our approach to tackling all forms of exploitation, including through Modern Slavery Engagement Forums (MSEFs). The Government will also consider delivering a new modern slavery strategy.