Modern slavery transparency statement

Modern slavery is when an individual is exploited by others, for personal or commercial gain. Whether tricked, coerced, or forced, they lose their freedom. This includes but is not limited to human trafficking.

The most common forms of modern slavery are:

• Human trafficking – The use of violence, threats or coercion to transport, recruit or harbour people in order to exploit them for purposes such as forced prostitution, labour, criminality, marriage or organ removal.
• Forced labour - Any work or services people are forced to do against their will, usually under threat of punishment.
• Debt bondage/bonded labour - The world’s most widespread form of slavery. People trapped in poverty borrow money and are forced to work to pay off the debt, losing control over both their employment conditions and the debt.
• Descent-based slavery - (where people are born into slavery) A very old form of slavery, where people are treated as property, and their “slave” status has been passed down the maternal line.
• Child slavery - When a child is exploited for someone else’s gain. This can include child trafficking, child soldiers, child marriage and child domestic slavery.
• Forced and early marriage - When someone is married against their will and cannot leave. Most child marriages can be considered slavery.
• Domestic servitude -  Domestic work and domestic servitude are not always slavery, and when properly regulated can be an important source of income for many people. However, when someone is working in another person’s home, they may be particularly vulnerable to abuses, exploitation, and slavery, as they might be hidden from sight and lack legal protection.