Between April and June this year, 1,630 children were identified as potential victims of modern slavery through the government’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM), an increase of almost 20 per cent on the previous quarter and the highest level since the NRM was launched in 2009.
The figures refer to any form of human trafficking, slavery, servitude or forced labour, as set out in the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
They show that that children known to the NRM were most often referred for criminal exploitation, where victims have been coerced into criminal activities from pickpocketing to transporting drugs across the country.
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