![]() We made a total of 80 recommendations and while we are yet to receive the government’s full response, two of these were accepted by Mrs May in her speech to the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.įirst, there is to be a new International Modern Slavery and Migration Envoy to drive forward the Government’s agenda on modern slavery and co-ordinate the UK’s efforts with other nations. ![]() Having secured the passage of the Modern Slavery Act in 2015, in recent months I have chaired a review into its effectiveness, along with Maria Miller MP and Baroness Butler-Sloss. When I spent a whole summer lobbying Fiona Hill, adviser to Theresa May when she was Home Secretary, to pass an Act to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking, I could never have imagined that Mrs May would, just a few years later, consider action against these twin evils to be a central part of her legacy in government. ![]() The Prime Minister’s announcement on tackling modern slavery is a welcome start – but if we are to truly end this evil we must act decisively, writes Frank Field ![]()
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