Slavery: Victims

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2018 continue to be safeguarded.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 1st May 2019

The Government is committed to identifying and supporting victims of modern slavery. When a potential victim is referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and the competent authority finds reasonable grounds to believe they are victim, that person becomes entitled to support. Potential victims are entitled to support for a minimum of 45 days for recovery and reflection, or until they receive a conclusive grounds decision confirming their victim status. Since 1st February confirmed victims receive a further 45 days of move-on support to help them transition to the next phase of their lives.


Child victims of modern slavery are supported by local authorities under existing statutory child protection arrangements.


The National Crime Agency regularly publishes NRM data, including the “National Referral Mechanism Statistics End of Year Summary 2018” which was published on 20th March 2019. The number of potential victims referred into the NRM for 2018 is available online here:


https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/component/finder/search?q=national+referral+mechanism+end+of+year+2018&Search=


The statistics also show the outcomes of conclusive grounds decisions.


Responsibility for NRM data will pass to the Home Office when the new Single Competent Authority for NRM decision making goes live later this month. We will then review what data we publish going forward.

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