Reports
The number of organisations and institutions focusing on modern slavery in the UK has increased significantly in recent years.
This growth has resulted in a burgeoning pool of research on the scale and scope of modern slavery crimes, as well analysis of the UK’s response and its effectiveness. This page houses a sample of recent research reports from civil society, academic institutions and governmental and parliamentary sources.
Local Reports

A Problem Profile for Modern Slavery in Nottinghamshire

Developing a localised Problem Profile for Modern Slavery: why and how?

Fashioning a beautiful future? Supporting workers and addressing labour exploitation in Leicester's textile and garment industry

Mapping Forced Marriage Risk in Nottinghamshire

Researching the extent and nature of Modern Slavery in Oxford

The vulnerability of paid migrant live-in care workers in London to modern slavery
Other

A Typology of Modern Slavery Offences in the UK (2017)

Better support, better protection: Steps lawyers and guardians can take to better identify and protect trafficked children (2016)

Brexit and Modern Slavery: impacts on the UK's legal frameworks for workers in supply chains

Collaborating for freedom: anti-slavery partnerships in the UK (2017)

Dignity, Not Destitution

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2021-2022

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Strategic Plan 2019-2021

It Still Happens Here: Fighting UK Slavery in the 2020s

LIGHTING THE WAY: Steps that lawyers, legal guardians and child trafficking advocates in the UK can take to better identify and protect children who may have been trafficked (2017)

Letting exploitation off the hook? Evidencing labour abuses in UK fishing

Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking Survey Report 2018 – Soroptimists International

Modern Slavery Reporting Practices in the UK

Modern Slavery Reporting: Case Studies of Leading Practice (2017)

Modern Slavery Research: the UK Picture (2017)

Partnerships for freedom: Improving multi-agency collaboration on modern slavery

Preparing for Impact: How we can overcome barriers and cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding, and respect to achieve impact on survivor support

Project Fair Life: Final Report

Reducing modern slavery (2017)

Responding to Modern Slavery & Exploitation in the Homelessness Sector: Findings and recommendations from the first year of The Passage's anti-slavery project (2019)

Responding to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Sandwell: Annual Report 2019/20

Stacked Odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls' experience of modern slavery

Tackling Modern Slavery: Council Case Studies

Tackling modern slavery: A council guide (2017)

The CPS response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (2017)

The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Underground Lives: Criminal Exploitation of Adult Victims

Understanding and Responding to Modern Slavery within the Homelessness Sector (2017)

What Looks Promising for Tackling Modern Slavery: A review of practice-based research
Covid-19

Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children

Policing County Lines: Impact of Covid-19

The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Criminal Exploitation

Understanding risks of exploitation for vulnerable migrant workers in the UK during Covid-19
Ukraine

Preventing human trafficking of refugees from Ukraine

The war in Ukraine and associated risks of human trafficking and exploitation
Survivor Experience

Survivors' Mental Wellness: Our Feelings, our Minds, our World

The Voice of British Survivors of Modern Slavery