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worker wellbeing in construction: our findings and what you can do

Explore the crucial role of Worker Wellbeing in construction with Unseen’s comprehensive Worker Wellbeing site visits. Discover key issues affecting workers and learn practical recommendations for improvement.

worker wellbeing in construction: our findings and what you can do

Explore the crucial role of Worker Wellbeing in construction with Unseen’s comprehensive Worker Wellbeing site visits. Discover key issues affecting workers and learn practical recommendations for improvement.

Modern slavery and the financial industry

The financial industry has a huge role to play in detecting and disrupting modern slavery at its source. Here’s what banks and others in the financial sector can do.

Modern slavery and the financial industry

The financial industry has a huge role to play in detecting and disrupting modern slavery at its source. Here’s what banks and others in the financial sector can do.

Unseen’s BBC Radio 4 appeal

Donate to Unseen’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal, presented by David Olusoga, and help raise vital funds for the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline.

Unseen’s BBC Radio 4 appeal

Donate to Unseen’s BBC Radio 4 Appeal, presented by David Olusoga, and help raise vital funds for the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline.

Modern slavery in the care sector – problems and solutions

Modern slavery in the care sector is on the rise. Learn more about the issues and how to protect staff and employers from labour abuse and exploitation in adult care.

Modern slavery in the care sector – problems and solutions

Modern slavery in the care sector is on the rise. Learn more about the issues and how to protect staff and employers from labour abuse and exploitation in adult care.

join our call for a new Anti-Slavery Commissioner

It’s been a year since the UK has had an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner – a champion of victims and survivors of modern slavery, whose role is required by law. Add your name to our letter, below, calling on the Home Secretary to urgently appoint someone to the position.

join our call for a new Anti-Slavery Commissioner

It’s been a year since the UK has had an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner – a champion of victims and survivors of modern slavery, whose role is required by law. Add your name to our letter, below, calling on the Home Secretary to urgently appoint someone to the position.

agriculture supply chains and the law 

agriculture supply chains and the law 

modern slavery legislation: what businesses should know

There has been a lot of international action on modern slavery and human rights laws that will affect businesses and their supply chains. Here are some highlights.

modern slavery legislation: what businesses should know

There has been a lot of international action on modern slavery and human rights laws that will affect businesses and their supply chains. Here are some highlights.

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Justine Currell

As I came to understand more about the issue, including through a visit to an Unseen safehouse, I knew I needed to do more to stop this abuse and exploitation.

For the last five years of my Civil Service career, I was the Modern Slavery Senior Policy Advisor in the Home Office and led on development of the Modern Slavery Act, including the transparency in supply chains provision and business guidance.

I joined Unseen to lead the development of the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, and Unseen’s work with businesses. I am regularly called upon to present at national and international conferences and use my experience of working with Ministers to influence other governments internationally to take action to address modern slavery and, in particular, business supply chain issues.

In my spare time I enjoy keeping fit, music, reading and travelling.

Andrew Wallis

What ultimately compelled me to act was a report on how people from Eastern Europe were being trafficked through Bristol airport to the USA. Kate Garbers, who went on to be an Unseen Director, and I wrote to all the city councillors, MPs and the Police Chief Constable challenging them on the issue. The challenge came back to us: this city needs safe housing for trafficked women. And so Unseen began.

But we never wanted Unseen to be just about safe housing. We wanted to end slavery once and for all, and that remains our driving focus.

I chaired the working group for the Centre for Social Justice’s landmark report “It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to Fight Modern Slavery”. This is now acknowledged as the catalyst behind the UK’s Modern Slavery Act of 2015. It was a great honour to be awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours that year. On the other hand, I’ve also been described as “the loveliest disrupter you could ever hope to meet”.

This job has taken me from building flat-pack furniture for safehouses, to working with businesses to address slavery in supply chains, to delivering training, raising awareness and advising governments around the world.

When not at work, I enjoy travelling, spending time with my dog Harley, cooking, supporting Liverpool and Yorkshire CC, music (I’m a former DJ) and endurance events such as the Three Peaks Challenge and Tribe Freedom Runs – which I vow never to do again. Until the next time.