The Home Office’s handling of the UK’s skyrocketing modern slavery cases has been branded a “shambles” after MPs heard a new group set up to tackle the scourge has yet to meet.
Safeguarding minister Sarah Dines faced a fiery backlash from the Home Affairs Select Committee after revealing stakeholders involved in the government’s new modern slavery forums have failed to sit around a table.
The groups—made up of representatives from various charities and safeguarding organisations—were due to replace previous modern slavery stakeholder forums in April.
The move was in direct response to escalating figures of potential trafficking victims after the UK recorded its highest ever number of those referred to the authorities last year….