Tackling Modern Slavery Conference 2025: Reinvigorating Strategies for Prevention, Identification, and Victim Support
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Overview
Despite the efforts made through frameworks like the Modern Slavery Act of 2015, the 2024 report from the Modern Slavery Act Committee warns that the UK is falling behind in its progress to prevent modern slavery. Economic challenges and global displacement have contributed to the prevalence of modern slavery in the UK. It is essential that there is awareness of the many, evolving forms modern slavery can take, how to spot these, how to intervene and how to support survivors across all areas of employment that may be vulnerable to forms of modern slavery.
Supporters Include
Agenda
Registration
Chair’s Opening Remarks
David Camp, Founder & Chair, Stronger Together (CONFIRMED)
Keynote: Updates on the Modern Slavery Landscape
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How modern slavery and human trafficking manifests in the UK in 2025
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Legal frameworks to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking
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Opportunities to respond: Prevent, Prepare, Protect and Pursue
Eleanor Redhead, Analyst Manager, Vulnerability and Harm, National Assessments Centre, National Crime Agency (CONFIRMED)
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Keynote: The Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract
- Exploring how improved access to high-quality, compassionate support services strengthens recovery for survivors
- Highlighting the wider benefits of survivor support, including disruption of criminal networks and reduced social costs
- Demonstrating how support reduces re-trafficking risks and empowers survivor engagement with the criminal justice system
- Outlining the value of lived experience in shaping prevention, protection, and support responses
Major Kathy Betteridge, Director Anti Trafficking & Modern Slavery Department, The Salvation Army (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Partnership Working to Leverage Positive Outcomes
- Partnerships are essential to tackling modern slavery.
- Modern slavery partnerships enable information and practice to flow from local to national and vis versa.
- Benefits and Importance of Modern Slavery Coordinators to Local Authorities and the response to modern slavery.
Nick Herbert, Project and Partnerships Lead, Human Trafficking Foundation (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Comfort Break
Case Study: Protecting Vulnerable Populations from Re-Trafficking
- Understanding the complexities migrants may face as vulnerable individuals who may not speak English, fear deportation and lack knowledge about their rights and where to seek help
- Outlining the ways that restrictive immigration policies, lack of legal protections, and the criminalisation of migrants can increase their vulnerability to exploitation
- Creating safe spaces for immigrants to report exploitation without fear including providing culturally sensitive services and ensuring access to legal support and protection
Dragana Wright, Senior Counter-Trafficking Manager, Helen Bamber Foundation (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Utilising Multi-agency Approaches Effectively
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The development of the Coventry Protocol for Addressing Adult Exploitation, which includes the city’s 4P modern slavery strategy and various operational pathways.
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The benefits of using a multi-agency collaborative approach when writing policy, including various lived and learnt perspectives.
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How the Protocol led to the creation of the city’s first Modern Slavery Partnership, and how the new partnership is implementing and embedding the protocol.
Hebe Lawson, Modern Slavery Lead and Chair of the Coventry Modern Slavery Partnership, Coventry City Council (CONFIRMED)
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Questions & Answers
Lunch
Breakout Networking
Lived Experience: Forced Marriage
- Understanding the role that culture and honour-based abuse may play in forced marriage and dealing with this sensitively
- Strategies for collaborating with community organisations, schools, and faith groups to raise awareness about forced marriage and create a supportive environment for those at risk
- Effective intervention strategies when forced marriage is suspected
- The importance of cross-border collaboration in preventing forced marriage
Surrinder, Survivor Ambassador Panel Member, Karma Nirvana (CONFIRMED)
Case Study: Criminal Exploitation: County Lines
- Understanding cannabis selling as a gateway to debt bondage
- Outlining the role that neurodiversity plays
- Understanding the role that social media may play in recruitment strategies
- Identifying signs of county lines recruitment and intervening early-on to grooming and exploitation
- Strategies for engaging with young people who may be at risk while keeping them safe from harm
Dr. Simon Harding, Director, Criminology Services (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Comfort Break
Keynote: Utilising Technology to Stop Human Trafficking
- Understanding technology as both part of the problem and part of the solution
- Guidance on creating coalitions between tech companies, law enforcement, government, and NGOs to share resources and knowledge
- Using AI to analyse traffickers online activity and surveillance footage
Maria Harb, Head of Prevention & Intelligence, STOP THE TRAFFIK (CONFIRMED)
Keynote: Survivor Aftercare
- Building holistic care for survivors of modern slavery that addresses the long-term needs of survivors
- Using co-production to create a survivor-centered approach to recovery that addresses physical, mental, and social well-being
- Outlining the complex support needed including legal services, help with applying for compensation, accessing immigration support, and pursuing criminal cases against perpetrators
- Strategies for ensuring coordination between different agencies, including law enforcement, local authorities, health services, and NGOs
- Guidance for ensuring survivors don’t become drawn back into modern slavery
Debi Lloyd, Head of Counter Trafficking Operations, Justice and Care (CONFIRMED)
Questions & Answers
Chair’s Closing Remarks
David Camp, Founder & Chair, Stronger Together (CONFIRMED)
Conference Close
Get in Touch
Speakers
Senior Representative
National Crime Agency
Dr Carole Murphy
Professor of Sociology and Applied Research and Director of the Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse
St Mary’s University
Dr. Simon Harding
Director
Criminology Services
Dr Julia Muraszkiewicz
Head of Programme Against Exploitation and Violence
Trilateral Research Ethical AI
Matthew Young
Research, Participation and Policy Manager
Causeway Charity
Senior Representative
STOP THE TRAFFIK
Senior Representative
Justice & Care
Testimonials
Excellent, informative and for those of us working in this sector essential attendance
An informative and interesting training event. The trainers clearly have lots of knowledge and experience, and understood many of the challenges faced by victims and professionals who are trying to support them
Informative, well presented and a must for all with an interest in MDS
Very informative to be given a wider overall view of Modern Slavery with experts in their field presenters
Why you Should Attend
Why Attend?
✓ High level keynotes on the latest policy including identifying and reporting modern slavery and utilising data-informed approaches to tackle modern slavery
✓ Listen and learn from case studies from leading experts in developing and delivering services for slavery victims
✓ Networking opportunities with speakers and colleagues from across the public sector
✓ 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota
Who Should Attend
| Job Title Examples | Organisation Examples |
| DI/ DS/ DCIs | Local Council |
| Safeguarding Officers/Heads of Safeguarding | Police |
| Social Workers | Local and National Charites |
| Case Worker | Central Government |
| Councillor | Victim Support Services |
Pricing Options
PUBLIC SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
VOLUNTARY SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Points.
PRIVATE SECTOR
Your delegate place at this leading conference gives you: Full access to the conference; E-guide; Networking opportunities during the day; Access to presentations post conference; 8 CPD Point
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Virtual vs F2F
Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:
- Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
- Lower sponsorship package costs
- No travel/accommodation
- Less time out of the office
- No stand materials required (lower costs)
- 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
- Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
- Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
- Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)
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