Home Office's 'hostile environment on steroids' sees failure to check detained migrants for signs of slavery and trafficking
Updated Monday, 15th February 2021, 7:42 am One expert says the many missed opportunities to identify and investigate links to exploitation demonstrates a lack of political will to tackle the issue, despite strong rhetoric from the Government. Two reports published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons on Border Force-run facilities around the UK found staff are not uniformly carrying out necessary interviews to determine if detainees are modern slavery victims. An unannounced inspection in September of facilities processing migrants arriving primarily via small-boat crossings also rai...
Source: pendletoday.co.uk