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 AI-generated
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.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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19. A separate strategy for children is not required as all policy development considers the relevant needs of adults and children, including through associated law (Children Acts and Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009) and equality impact assessments. Child-specific support, which takes account of child-specific needs and vulnerabilities, is provided through local authority safeguarding structures. Child victims may also receive support from an Independent Child Trafficking Guardian (ICTG).
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