Medaille Trust, one of the leading providers of modern slavery support services in the UK, have called for the withdrawal of proposed modern slavery legislation in the government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
Medaille Trust CEO Dani Wardman said “the proposed legislation undermines the recovery of vulnerable survivors, risks excluding victims from desperately needed support and fails to address the root causes preventing survivors attaining justice.” The Immigration and Asylum Bill seeks to change the way in which potential victims are assessed, introducing new credibility criteria which are likely to exclude many legitimate victims and removing support from others.
Medaille Trust has consistently campaigned with others across the sector for reforms that will bring trauma-informed practice into assessment and prioritise long-term recovery and justice for survivors. The Immigration and Asylum Bill continues a damaging trend of conflating trafficking and modern slavery victims with concerns over irregular migration.
Media Contact: Ben Ryan b.ryan@medaille-trust.org.uk 07931996255
Medaille Trust is one of the UK’s leading providers of modern slavery survivor
support services and one of the largest Catholic charities in the fight against human
trafficking and modern slavery. They work to support more than 500 survivors a year
through safe house and outreach projects in addition to awareness raising in the UK,
prevention work in Albania, and pursuit work that helps survivors to engage with
police and the justice system to secure convictions against their abusers.
MT full statement on immigration and asylum bill
The full statement from Medaille Trust can be found attached.