Powerful powerful speech by Alex Davies-Jones MP on transparency and hearing the voice of victims of Epstein, at TheyWorkForYou www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=...

Czech police charged four individuals and a legal entity for coercing young women into creating explicit content for OnlyFans and other platforms. www.reuters.com/world/czech-...

When you think about the profile of a human trafficker, what do you think of? I bet pensioner wasn’t in your top 10? #modernslavery www.itv.com/news/granada...

The consequences of deliberately conflating smuggling and #humantrafficking rumble on with real life consequences for victims. Read this. www.dpglaw.co.uk/news/home-se... @dpglaw.co.uk

Good to hear Lord Alton calling for MHRDD in the House of Lords’ Debate on the King’s Speech: “we called for radical change to the Modern Slavery Act to prevent slavery in global supply chains. Will those recommendations feature in forthcoming legislation? www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...

77% of trafficking victims are in forced labour, not sex work. Most people in the USA picture the other 23%. Neighbourhood kids called Djena "the slave." A neighbour saw a TV show about trafficking, looked at Djena's situation, and talked herself out of it. Couldn't happen here.

Q. When is a law not a law? A. When it is politically inconvenient? #modernslavery www.politico.eu/article/uk-f... @labouruk.bsky.social @sarahchampionmp.bsky.social

Come on Keir, you can do better www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... @labouruk.bsky.social

“Slavery and the most harrowing forms of exploitation are becoming more widespread in this country and evolving faster than we can respond,” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The Home Office published a one-year modern slavery action plan and stopped there. Today, a coalition of leading anti-slavery organisations publishes the Decade of Dignity — a ten-year vision to fill the void. unseenuk.org/major-report-calls-for-sweeping-overhaul-of-uks-modern-slavery-response

Hi @alexjjnorris.bsky.social, just wondering if you meant smuggler when you used the term migrant trafficker, and we’re not conflating human trafficking and smuggling as seems to be the want at present? They’re not the same thing! www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2026... Perhaps correct the record?

The tangled web of Epstein’s sex trafficking network spent been uncovered but raises huge questions about the British policing response. Epstein housed abuse victims in London flats, BBC reveals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #modernslavery

Own a dog? Live in Bristol? Sign this! c.org/2FgZtXkZFm

A Lancet @thelancet.com correspondence just landed that deserves attention. Human trafficking isn't just a crime. It's a structural determinant of health. 6.3 million people trafficked for sexual exploitation. PTSD, chronic pain, & developmental harm in children. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division. A total waste of our time, resources and patience. But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.

Brexit - the gift that keeps on giving sh*te @nfudc.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/ange...

This is not a good look for the government and further adds to the perception that victims of trafficking are not to be believed. Appalling that they have been told ‘the usefulness of a trafficking investigation where the conviction rate is very low’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #modernslavery

The Foreign Office funded Xinjiang carbon capture during the Uyghur detentions. Now GB Energy has a legal obligation to ensure its supply chains are free from forced labour. The government wrote that clause itself. Full argument on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew... @aliciakearns.bsky.social

We close the national modern slavery investigations unit this April. Mid-investigation. Because immigration polls better. The full argument, including the Al Fayed angle, is on my LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

The UK has 130,000 #modernslavery victims and a £60bn annual cost. From April, the government is closing the national unit that coordinates police investigations into it. The reason, per insiders: immigration wins more votes. That is a policy decision with a body count observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

If you can, but you’ll have to be quick, do go and see this production at the Bristol Old Vic bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/a-m...

Listen to this from @mediastormpod.bsky.social #modernslavery podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

The instinct is to frame this as a monstrous outlier. But outliers do not survive 25 years of captivity in a residential neighbourhood. That requires systemic permission. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #modernslavery

The Dyson/ATA Malaysia settlement is a landmark. British courts can now hear forced labour claims against UK firms for what happens in overseas supply chains, not just subsidiaries. Outsourcing no longer equals legal protection.

Behind the stuccoed façades of Chelsea. 18-hour days. No bedroom. Passport gone. Sent across London for "massages." The Overseas Domestic Worker ODW visa was changed in 2012. Workers lost the right to change employers or renew, a legal exit route, gone. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

I love this city. It doesn't need London's permission for anything. Except apparently a tram, or a metro or a bus that turns up. 23 smaller French cities have metro networks. #Bristol has a document explaining why it might commission a rprt about exploring options www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

The French are investigating Al Fayed as #sextrafficking. The Met is investigating him for sexual abuse. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our @unseenuk.bsky.social Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline indicated 804 potential victims of sexual exploitation in 2024. Child sexual exploitation cases more than doubled.

Work without pay. Or face 72 hours in solitary confinement. That is not a labour dispute. That is a coercion mechanism. Under any serious forced labour framework, that is the definition. 🧵

The grooming gang failures were real, documented, and inexcusable. Thousands of children failed by institutions that should have protected them. That requires unflinching accountability. But this piece is not an analysis. It is a political argument in academic dress 🧵 www.meforum.org/mef-online/t...

The UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner is calling for a regulatory overhaul of adult sexual services websites. Survivors describe being trafficked via these platforms by criminal gangs. The sites currently profit from that exploitation.

100 years of parliamentary language on immigration, analysed by @theguardian.com The result: the last five years represent a historically unprecedented negative swing. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

15 years ago, we warned about children going missing from care, social workers not recognising exploitation, and the lack of trauma-informed support. Rochdale. Rotherham. Telford. We’re still here. Because the system failures are structural, not accidental. New piece www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we...

“Brexit has removed a key source of funding…County Durham received £154m of EU funding between 2014 and 2020, about £22m a year. Since the UK left the European Union, it receives about half that amount, £12m annually, under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #brexitfail

Check out my latest article: Stop Blaming Modern Slavery for Britain’s Immigration Failures www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-b... via @linkedin.com #modernslavery #immigration

Church investors are using capital markets to demand more than compliance. CCLA's first global #modernslavery benchmark assessed 111 companies on their efforts to find, fix, and prevent forced labour. Only 5 scored strongly. religionmediacentre.org.uk/news/how-chu...

I’m not holding my breath. It’s been a tragic comedy to date. #Bristol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grateful for the support from the CIPS Foundation allowing us to use data more effectively to tackle #modernslavery. www.cips.org/about-us/new...

Forced labour isn’t just a moral failure. It’s a market distortion. International Labour Organisation evidence shows import bans work when they change incentives. But bans alone are blunt. www.ilo.org/publications...

ACT’s @actnewzealand.bsky.social critique of NZ’s Modern Slavery Bill confuses criminal law with system design. The bill isn’t duplicating existing offences—it’s addressing the structural opacity that lets exploitation hide in complex supply chains. www.act.org.nz/news/live-ho...

Explore what conversations with workers revealed about labour practices on construction sites, drawing on insights from Unseen’s 2025 site visits to highlight key issues affecting workers: bit.ly/4btk21j

What’s really shocking is that Cllr Donna Higgins, cabinet member for families and communities at West Suffolk Council is shocked #modernslavery occurs in Bury St Edmonds. There are nearly 3x the number of victims in the UK as the total population of Bury St Edmunds uk.news.yahoo.com/town-leaders...

Illegal working, exploitation & organised criminality are real & they damage workers, communities & honest businesses. But turning that into an ethnic dog whistle is worse than wrong; it actively shields the criminals by avoiding enforcement & labour market reform www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Today in Aotearoa politics National and Labour MPs put principle above partisanship to fast-track #modernslavery legislation, using a new parliamentary rule to push it into the House after ACT wouldn’t back it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Justice, at last, for a survivor trafficked and exploited by a diplomat in London. The High Court ordering the UAE to pay £260k matters because it exposes a hard truth: diplomatic privilege has too often operated as an exploitation licence. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...

Forced labour doesn’t thrive because we lack information. It thrives because insight is fragmented. This WEF piece makes the case for collective intelligence: shared data, shared accountability, and earlier action. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Through funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Unseen is engaging 15 hard to reach communities across the UK at heightened risk of #modernslavery. Learn more about this project by reading our latest article. bit.ly/4pGXCwQ #EndExploitation #NationalLottery #Unseen

Human trafficking rarely looks like chains. This BBC Africa Eye investigation from Sierra Leone shows how trust, poverty and false opportunity are quietly weaponised to exploit young people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dont forget that Forced Labour regulations come into effect in the EU on 14 Dec 2027. This will impact UK businesses and create an unlabelled playing field. www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...

Doubting survivors and tightening evidence does not strengthen protections for people trapped in modern slavery. It weakens them. Data shows many refusals are overturned on review. Our laws should amplify justice not silence the vulnerable. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...