Archive of IASC Reports & Publications
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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Archive
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Child trafficking in the UK 2021: a snapshot
The report provides an outline of child trafficking between October 2020 and October 2021, including the latest data, policy developments, examples of promising practice and challenges faced by practitioners. It concludes with a series of 10 recommendations aimed at a range of stakeholders.
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IASC and Cumberland Lodge report: Practitioner Responses to Child Trafficking: Emerging Good Practice (April 2022)
Practitioner Responses to Child Trafficking: Emerging Good Practice explores explores the role of practitioner evidence in responding to child exploitation in the UK, how such evidence is used to improve the welfare of survivors, and how it is used to determine policy and research.
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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2017
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Refining a public health approach to modern slavery
This report was produced by the University of Sheffield, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and Public Health England and builds on earlier research on the case for a public health approach to modern slavery in the UK (Such et al. 2017, 2020).
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IASC note: Roundtable on the benefits and barriers to accessing employment (March 2022)
A note following a virtual roundtable chaired by IASC on 19 January 2022 to discuss implementing the recommendations made by the report 'The benefits and the barriers to accessing employment: Considerations for survivors of modern slavery' published in collaboration with the University of Nottingham Rights Lab.
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IASC Bulletin (December 2021)
An update summarising the work of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's Office including a message from Dame Sara Thornton.
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IASC and ECPAT UK Review: A review of what works in multi-agency decision making and the implications for child victims of trafficking
A joint review by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and ECPAT UK which examines what works in existing multi-agency decision making frameworks to help inform future thinking on devolved NRM decision making for child victims of trafficking.
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IASC review: Financial Investigation of Modern Slavery - Part 2 (November 2021)
In March 2021 IASC published a report that made a series of recommendations designed to increase the number of financial investigations supporting modern slavery operations. This paper provides a review of implementation and identifies what more could be done.
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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2020-2021
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2020-2021.
Presented to Parliament on 14 July 2021 pursuant to Section 42 (10) (b) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Research Priorities 2021
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IASC Bulletin (September 2021)
An update summarising the work of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's Office including a message from Dame Sara Thornton.
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Five IASC recommendations to the financial sector (September 2021)
The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thorton, sets out five recommendations to the financial sector on how organisations should be addressing modern slavery.
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IASC Operation Fort review (June 2020) - Commissioner's Agenda for Action in 2020
The Commissioner's Agenda for Action in 2020, developed as part of the IASC review Operation Fort - What businesses should learn from the UK’s largest anti-slavery prosecution.
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IASC Bulletin (February 2022)
An update summarising the work of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's Office including a message from Dame Sara Thornton.
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IASC Review: Operation Fort - What businesses should learn from the UK’s largest anti-slavery prosecution (June 2020)
A review by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner on the business response to Operation Fort.
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The Modern Slavery Act 2015 statutory defence: A call for evidence (October 2020)
The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, has today published her review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 statutory defence. The review’s purpose was to gain a better understanding of what was happening on the ground in respect of the use of the statutory defence. Having received over 100 written responses referring to 200 cases, and listened to an informed and broad spectrum of expert evidence, the review makes ten practical recommendations aimed at making the current system work better.
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Managing Modern Slavery Risks in Capital Markets
In April 2021 the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking co-organised a roundtable discussion on managing modern slavery risks in capital markets. The event explored developments in capital market expectations and regulation, drawing on the Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) Blueprint, and recent research into the role of investors, asset managers, and capital markets.
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IASC Operation Fort review (June 2020) - IASC Maturity Framework
The Maturity Framework for businesses, developed as part of the IASC review Operation Fort - What businesses should learn from the UK’s largest anti-slavery prosecution.
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IASC Paper: Preparing for Work (April 2022)
This paper examines programmes available to support survivors of modern slavery to prepare for work.
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Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2019-2020
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2019-2020 (print version)
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IASC and Rights Lab report: The Benefits and the Barriers to Accessing Employment: Considerations for Survivors of Modern Slavery
A report examining the benefits of working, the harms caused by not working, and the current approach to how survivors are assisted to access employment, reintegrate, and work towards stability and independence.
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IASC paper: Access to compensation and reparation for survivors of trafficking (April 2022)
An IASC policy paper which evaluates some of the key issues around access to compensation and reparation for victims of human trafficking in the UK.
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IASC report: SURVIVORS' MENTAL WELLNESS: Our Feelings, our Minds, our World (April 2022)
This report examines trafficking survivors’ experiences of mental health support in order to identify the various gaps and challenges to sustainable mental wellness.<
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Briefing summary - The Benefits and the Barriers to Accessing Employment: Considerations for Survivors of Modern Slavery
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IASC and Modern Slavery & Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (MSPEC) MoU (February 2022)
A Memorandum of Understanding between the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC). The MoU sets out a joint commitment to developing a collaborative approach to policy-relevant modern slavery research, building on the variety of collaborative mechanisms already established between the Commissioner’s Office and the Modern Slavery PEC.
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IASC review: The Use of Modern Slavery Risk and Prevention Orders (March 2022)
An IASC report on the use of modern slavery risk and prevention orders. The report includes five recommendations aimed at law enforcement to ensure that investigators have access to practicable guidance to obtain orders and that standard procedures and systems are in place to actively monitor individuals.
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IASC review - The role of the financial services sector in eradicating modern slavery (September 2021)
The Commissioner's review of her engagement with financial services CEOs, making five recommendations on how the sector should be addressing modern slavery.
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IASC paper: Asylum decision times for potential victims of modern slavery (October 2021)
The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, has today published a briefing paper outlining her concerns about the length of time potential victims of modern slavery within the NRM are waiting for decisions in relation to asylum claims.