modern slavery and forced labour Slavery is not a thing of the past - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

A collaborative approach to tackling modern slavery and forced labour

Slavery is not a thing of the past • 2015 Global Slavery Index estimates 36 million in slavery • Fastest growing criminal industry in the world • Second most profitable criminal industry to drugs • UK estimate 10-13,000 in slavery • UK 2012 - 29% cases of forced labour in food & agriculture

Modern Slavery An umbrella term used to describe: – Offences of human trafficking, slavery, forced labour and domestic servitude. – Slavery-like practices such as debt bondage, sale or exploitation of children and forced or servile marriage. While varied in nature, all involve one person depriving another person of their liberty, in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.

The UK Government has introduced: • A Modern Slavery and Organised Crime Minister – Karen Bradley • A Modern Slavery website • A Modern Slavery Helpline • A Modern Slavery Strategy • Anti-Slavery Commissioner • The Modern Slavery Act

Modern Slavery Act and Supply Chain Transparency All UK big businesses must publicly state each year (on their website with a link from the homepage) what action they have taken to ensure their global supply chains are slavery free.

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains 3 Business Models • The Employer – knowingly holds workers in slavery • The Intermediary – supplies workers to the employer – Employer may be complicit, negligent, naïve or genuinely duped by convincing and manipulative individuals or gangmaster businesses • The Organised Criminal Gang / Individual – Feeds workers in a hidden way into the legitimate supply chain and controls them for gain Each require a different approach to tackle

Stronger Together is a pioneering food and agricultural industry led initiative to equip suppliers and labour providers with the knowledge, good practice and free resources to help them to reduce the risk of modern slavery in their business and supply chains .

OBJECTIVE To reduce forced labour, labour trafficking and other hidden third party labour exploitation

Stronger Together provides employers & labour providers with: • Free toolkit guidance - “Tackling Hidden Labour Exploitation” • Free Tools – posters, leaflets, videos, template policies and forms, induction, training packages • Regional workshops • A network to build and share good practice

Stronger Together so far… • Guidance and resources seen as practical and helpful • UK Home Office has recommended the Stronger Together materials • 800 delegates from 500 UK supplier sites have attended workshops • Suppliers and labour providers have pledged good practice to reach 400,000 workers • Business Partner webpage for suppliers to publicly demonstrates commitment to tackle slavery

In progress… • Online training modules for – Workers – Recruiters – Supervisors • Pilot victim reintegration programme • Extending into other UK industry sectors • Developing support and solutions into global supply chains

What you can do  Register and download the resources from www.stronger2gether.org  Book onto a Stronger Together workshop  Begin implementing the good practice Thank - You