Reports

The number of organisations and institutions focusing on modern slavery in the UK has increased significantly in recent years.

This growth has resulted in a burgeoning pool of research on the scale and scope of modern slavery crimes, as well analysis of the UK’s response and its effectiveness. This page houses a sample of recent research reports from civil society, academic institutions and governmental and parliamentary sources.

Local Reports

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The vulnerability of paid migrant live-in care workers in London to modern slavery

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Researching the extent and nature of Modern Slavery in Oxford

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A Problem Profile for Modern Slavery in Nottinghamshire

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Developing a localised Problem Profile for Modern Slavery: why and how?

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Fashioning a beautiful future? Supporting workers and addressing labour exploitation in Leicester's textile and garment industry

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Mapping Forced Marriage Risk in Nottinghamshire

Covid-19

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Understanding risks of exploitation for vulnerable migrant workers in the UK during Covid-19

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Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children

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Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Criminal Exploitation

Ukraine

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The war in Ukraine and associated risks of human trafficking and exploitation

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Preventing human trafficking of refugees from Ukraine

Survivor Experience

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Survivors' Mental Wellness: Our Feelings, our Minds, our World

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The Voice of British Survivors of Modern Slavery

Other

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Project Fair Life: Final Report

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Letting exploitation off the hook? Evidencing labour abuses in UK fishing

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Modern Slavery Reporting Practices in the UK

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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2021-2022

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What Looks Promising for Tackling Modern Slavery: A review of practice-based research

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Stacked Odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls' experience of modern slavery

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Partnerships for freedom: Improving multi-agency collaboration on modern slavery

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It Still Happens Here: Fighting UK Slavery in the 2020s

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Preparing for Impact: How we can overcome barriers and cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding, and respect to achieve impact on survivor support

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Underground Lives: Criminal Exploitation of Adult Victims

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Brexit and Modern Slavery: impacts on the UK's legal frameworks for workers in supply chains

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Responding to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Sandwell: Annual Report 2019/20

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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Strategic Plan 2019-2021

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Dignity, Not Destitution

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The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Tackling Modern Slavery: Council Case Studies

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Tackling modern slavery: A council guide (2017)

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Reducing modern slavery (2017)

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The CPS response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (2017)

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Collaborating for freedom: anti-slavery partnerships in the UK (2017)

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A Typology of Modern Slavery Offences in the UK (2017)

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LIGHTING THE WAY: Steps that lawyers, legal guardians and child trafficking advocates in the UK can take to better identify and protect children who may have been trafficked (2017)

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Understanding and Responding to Modern Slavery within the Homelessness Sector (2017)

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Responding to Modern Slavery & Exploitation in the Homelessness Sector: Findings and recommendations from the first year of The Passage's anti-slavery project (2019)

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Better support, better protection: Steps lawyers and guardians can take to better identify and protect trafficked children (2016)

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Modern Slavery Research: the UK Picture (2017)

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Modern Slavery Reporting: Case Studies of Leading Practice (2017)

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Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking Survey Report 2018 – Soroptimists International

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