Partner agencies & helpful resources

The following websites may help you to understand the issue of modern slavery:

  • The Clewer Initiative
    Enabling Church of England dioceses and wider church networks to develop strategies for detecting modern slavery in their communities and help provide victim support and care.
  • Modern Slavery Partnership
    A multi-agency partnership, chaired and facilitated by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC).
  • gov.uk/government/collections/modern-slavery
    Brings together documents and promotional material related to the government’s work to end modern slavery.
  • Anti-Slavery Commissioner
    Dame Sara Thornton is the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. The Strategic Plan 2019-2021 can be found here.
  • Medaille Trust
    Medaille Trust exists to provide refuge and freedom to victims of modern slavery – supporting them as they rebuild their lives. Today, it is the largest provider of supported safe house beds for victims of modern slavery in the UK.
  • Stop the Traffik
    Intelligence-led Prevention:
    • Resilience Building
    • Awareness Raising
    • Business Risk Analysis
  • Barnardos (Hampshire)
    Barnardo’s provides direct, specialist support to trafficked children. It helps young victims cope with the practical and emotional traumas of being trafficked. The specialist support workers help them to understand what is happening with social care services, the police and immigration – in ways that they can understand. It runs the specialist Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service (ICTGS) services in Wales/Cymru, East Midlands, West Midlands Combined Authorities, Croydon, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and Greater Manchester
  • Love146
    LOVE146 is an international human rights organisation working to end child trafficking through prevention education and survivor care. It offers:
    • Specialist Supported Accommodation
    • Specialist Supported Independent Accommodation
    • Wrap around support
    • Outreach Support
  • Apostleship of the Sea
    Providing practical and pastoral care to all seafarers, regardless of nationality, belief or race.
  • Hagar International
    Help women and children recover from the trauma of trafficking, slavery and abuse.
  • Santa Marta group
    Catholic partnership established in 2014 by Pope Francis and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to eliminate human trafficking.
  • End Slavery in Our Lifetime | International Justice Mission (ijm.org)