| Summary: | Modern slavery is a term that includes any form of human trafficking, slavery, servitude or forced labour, as set out in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Potential victims of modern slavery in the UK that come to the attention of authorised ‘First Responder’ organisations are referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). Adults (aged 18 or above) must consent to being referred to the NRM, whilst children under the age of 18 need not consent to being referred. As specified in section 52 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, public authorities in England and Wales have a statutory duty to notify the Home Office when they come across potential victims of modern slavery ('Duty to Notify' (DtN)). This duty is discharged by either referring a child or consenting adult potential victim into the NRM, or by notifying the Home Office via the DtN process if an adult victim does not consent to enter the NRM. For the 14th edition (November 2024), the data file was amended to include Quarter 3 2024 cases (up to 4 October), and the Data Notes documentation file was also updated. From Quarter 3, 2024, new columns have been added to the data: * ‘age_of_case’, which includes the number of days between the referral date and the date of the end of the most recently published quarter, for all cases which are awaiting a conclusive grounds (CG) decision, having already received a positive reasonable grounds (RG) decision. * Two new columns for reasons for negative decisions have also been added to reflect the new data included in the NRM statistical bulletin. ‘negative_rg_reason’ (Reason for negative reasonable grounds (RG) decision), and ‘negative_cg_reason’ (Reason for negative conclusive grounds (CG) decision).
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