Question follow-through · 60371
Slavery: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the reported increase in modern slavery cases within the care sector since that sector’s inclusion on the Shortage Occupation List.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle the reported increase in modern slavery cases within the care sector since that sector’s inclusion on the Shortage Occupation List.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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23 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is continually looking to improve the quality and provision of modern slavery statistics.We have recently improved and simplified the First Responders form used to refer people to the NRM, following extensive feedback from over 450 stakehol...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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