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Modern slavery offences up 59%
The UK’s 2020 annual report on modern slavery finds a 59% yearly increase in recorded offences and an increase in prosecutions.
20th October 2020
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The UK’s 2020 annual report on modern slavery finds a 59% yearly increase in recorded offences and an increase in prosecutions.
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The Home Office has published new measures to help the victims of modern slavery alongside a typology of the 17 most common forms of this abuse in the UK.
New campaign by the National Crime Agency recognises that modern slavery happens in every city in the UK.
