Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead and a driving force at the heart of the Modern Slavery bill, gives a first-person account of how the whole campaign began.
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act was meant to put Britain at the forefront of the fight against modern slavery, but its focus on prosecution does little to help the vulnerable.
Civil society organisations campaigned intensely to shape the UK’s modern slavery bill as it went through parliament. The Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group’s coordinator explains all that went on behind the scenes.
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act, 2015 was hotly debated by policy-shapers during the drafting process. We take a behind-the-scenes look at one of last year’s most contentious bills.
States resort to criminal law when they either can’t or won’t tackle root causes. The Modern Slavery Act is just another example of applying the stick to ‘solve’ a fundamentally socio-economic issue.
The Modern Slavery Act represented a chance to restore rights to overseas domestic workers in the UK, but due to strong government opposition those rights remain denied. Why?
The NGO Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) engaged strongly with the British parliament during the drafting of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, but found the government resistant to many of its ideas.
Companies may be more willing to tackle exploitation in supply chains than we think, but they need government regulation to ensure they don’t lose their competitive advantage by doing so.
The Modern Slavery Act was supposed to make Britain a global leader in the fight against slavery, but where did it come from and does it do what its proponents claim?
