Report highlights ‘inadequate’ child protection response as modern slavery cases ‘skyrocket’

12th March 2024Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight 1 Comment

New research by the University of Nottingham Rights Lab and ECPAT UK has found that dwindling police and local authority resources, increased workloads, lack of training, institutional biases, and changing political priorities have led to a significant rise in child exploitation through modern slavery, prompting calls for a comprehensive national strategy, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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