Recommendation 7

The Home Office’s approach to stakeholder engagement has been lackadaisical. It has taken the Home Office two years to launch a new formation of stakeholder groups (Modern Slavery Stakeholder Forums), during which time key legislation affecting victims of trafficking has been enacted with minimal or non-existent consultation with key human trafficking stakeholders. This is unacceptable. It is evident that this lack of Home Office accountability has been further exacerbated by the vacancy of the post of Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner for the last eighteen months, which we will discuss later in this chapter. (Paragraph 40) 72 Human trafficking