Jude Bradford

Safeguarding Adult Team

Slavery was abolished in the UK in 1807, over 200 years ago.

There are now more people subject to slavery than ever before

Introduction of The Modern Slavery Act, 2015.

(UK Legistlation)

Modern slavery is where one person possesses or controls another person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of their individual liberty, with the intention of exploiting that person through their use, profit, transfer or disposal

It is estimated that there are 20.9 million people enslaved in the world 11.4 million are women and girls and 9.5 million men and boys.

4.5 million are victims of forced sexual exploitation

68% are the subject of forced labour

Nearly 1 in 3 detected victims of slavery is a child

Slavery is illegal in nearly every nation on Earth but still exists everywhere.

In 2015 3266 people identified as potential victims.

982 of those were children

40 % increase on 2014 figures

DOMESTIC SERVITUDE

SEX TRAFFICKING

FORCED LABOUR

BONDED LABOUR

CHILD LABOUR

FORCED MARRIAGE

CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION

Employees working in private homes are forced or coerced into serving and/or are fraudulently convinced they have no option to leave. Their freedom may be restricted, they may work long hours for little or no pay, often sleeping where they work.

Men, women and children are forced into the commercial sex industry and held against their will be force, fraud or coercion. This includes but is not limited to sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, forced prostitution and the abuse of children .

In 2015 33% of all reported trafficking victims in the UK were victims of sexual exploitation

Human beings being forced to work under the threat of violence for no pay. These slaves are treated as property and exploited to create a product for commercial sale

Occurs in construction, manufacturing, laying driveways, hospitality, food packaging, agriculture, maritime and beauty i.e. Nail Bars. Often victims are housed together in poor conditions

In 2015 85% of reported labour victims were male

Individuals that are compelled to work in order to repay a debt and are unable to leave until that debt has been repaid

Debt is usually owed to traffickers as payment for getting themselves or family members into the country.

This debt can be sold to other traffickers

This is the most common form of enslavement

Any enslavement whether forced labour, domestic servitude or sex trafficking of a child

Exploitation of a person to commit a crime such as pick pocketing, shop lifting, forced begging, cannabis cultivation, drug trafficking or similar activity that implies financial gain for the traffickers

Organ removal, usually kidneys

Forced Fraud Benefit

Illegal Adoption

Forced Marriage

Victims can face more than one type of abuse and slavery. For example, being sold to another trafficker and then being forced into another form of exploitation.

There is no typical victim of slavery

Victims are men, women and children of all ages, ethnicities and nationalities cut across the population

More prevalent amongst the most vulnerable or within minority or socially excluded groups

Poverty

Limited opportunities at home

Lack of education

Unstable social and political conditions

Economic imbalances

War

Potential victims in the UK have been reported from 103 different countries of origin in 2015

The top 6 most common are Albania, Vietnam, Nigeria, Romania, the UK and Poland

Not free to come and go as they please

Is unpaid, or paid very little or paid only through tips

Works excessively long and/or unusual hours

Suffers unusual restrictions at work

Owes a large debt and is unable to pay it off

Recruited through false promises concerning the nature and conditions of their work

Cramped, overcrowded living conditions

Appears fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, tense or nervous or paranoid

Anxious behaviour when bringing up police

Avoids eye contact

Lacks health care

Appears malnourished

Signs of physical restraint, sexual abuse, confinement or torture

Few or no personal possession

Not in control of his/her own money, no financial records or bank account

Not in control of his/her own passport or ID documents

Not allowed or unable to speak for themselves

Lack of knowledge of their wherabouts

No legislation specifically covering this in the Isle of Man but does not prevent the police from being first point of call.

If a child, Children and Families

Safeguarding Adults Team

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Heroic air stewardess rescues girl from human trafficker by leaving message in plane’s bathroom after noticing she looked like she’d ‘been through pure hell’ The 49-year-old attendant has been praised for saving the girl’s life mid-flight

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The firm was run by Jacqueline

Judge and Darrell Houghton.

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