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
The vulnerability of paid migrant live-in care workers in London to modern slavery
Researching the extent and nature of Modern Slavery in Oxford
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
Covid-19
Understanding risks of exploitation for vulnerable migrant workers in the UK during 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
Ukraine
The war in Ukraine and associated risks of human trafficking and exploitation
Preventing human trafficking of refugees from Ukraine
Survivor Experience
Survivors' Mental Wellness: Our Feelings, our Minds, our World
The Voice of British Survivors of Modern Slavery
Other
Letting exploitation off the hook? Evidencing labour abuses in UK fishing
Modern Slavery Reporting Practices in the UK
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2021-2022
What Looks Promising for Tackling Modern Slavery: A review of practice-based research
Stacked Odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls' experience of modern slavery
Partnerships for freedom: Improving multi-agency collaboration on modern slavery
It Still Happens Here: Fighting UK Slavery in the 2020s
Preparing for Impact: How we can overcome barriers and cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding, and respect to achieve impact on survivor support
Underground Lives: Criminal Exploitation of Adult Victims
Brexit and Modern Slavery: impacts on the UK's legal frameworks for workers in supply chains
Responding to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Sandwell: Annual Report 2019/20
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Strategic Plan 2019-2021
Dignity, Not Destitution
The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Tackling Modern Slavery: Council Case Studies
Tackling modern slavery: A council guide (2017)
Reducing modern slavery (2017)
The CPS response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (2017)
Collaborating for freedom: anti-slavery partnerships in the UK (2017)
A Typology of Modern Slavery Offences in the UK (2017)
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)
Understanding and Responding to Modern Slavery within the Homelessness Sector (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)
Better support, better protection: Steps lawyers and guardians can take to better identify and protect trafficked children (2016)
Modern Slavery Research: the UK Picture (2017)
Modern Slavery Reporting: Case Studies of Leading Practice (2017)
