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National Lottery Community Fund makes engagement with hard to reach communities possible

Funding made possible by National Lottery players enables five year project to engage survivors of modern slavery in hard-to-reach communities across the UK.

National Lottery Community Fund makes engagement with hard to reach communities possible

Funding made possible by National Lottery players enables five year project to engage survivors of modern slavery in hard-to-reach communities across the UK.

UK’s modern slavery response weakened by immigration legislation

Tackling Modern Slavery Across Supply Chains and Communities

This article first appeared in the London Universities Purchasing Consortium’s, Autumn 2025 edition of Linked Magazine: Modern slavery is one of the world’s fastest-growing crimes, embedded in global and local supply chains. Every organisation has a role to play in eradicating it. Unseen partners with businesses, policymakers and communities to uncover exploitation, support survivors and help build a slavery-free future.

Tackling Modern Slavery Across Supply Chains and Communities

This article first appeared in the London Universities Purchasing Consortium’s, Autumn 2025 edition of Linked Magazine: Modern slavery is one of the world’s fastest-growing crimes, embedded in global and local supply chains. Every organisation has a role to play in eradicating it. Unseen partners with businesses, policymakers and communities to uncover exploitation, support survivors and help build a slavery-free future.

Tackling modern slavery – breakthrough moments from 2025 and why we must do more

New law will prevent human rights abuses and keep forced labour goods out of the UK market

Without new legislation, the UK risks becoming a ‘dumping ground’ for products that fail to meet international human rights norms.

New law will prevent human rights abuses and keep forced labour goods out of the UK market

Without new legislation, the UK risks becoming a ‘dumping ground’ for products that fail to meet international human rights norms.

One call can change a life – thank you for supporting Unseen’s Helpline this Christmas

A night of hope at Bath Abbey: a recap on Unseen’s Carol Service

Unseen’s annual carol service at Bath Abbey was an atmosphere of solidarity and hope. More than 300 people came together for an evening of music, speeches and reflection, highlighting the strength of survivors and the ongoing fight against modern slavery. The event marked not just a moment of reflection, but a call to action.

A night of hope at Bath Abbey: a recap on Unseen’s Carol Service

Unseen’s annual carol service at Bath Abbey was an atmosphere of solidarity and hope. More than 300 people came together for an evening of music, speeches and reflection, highlighting the strength of survivors and the ongoing fight against modern slavery. The event marked not just a moment of reflection, but a call to action.

Unseen CEO Named Charity Founder of the Year

Joint statement from CEOs on modern slavery protections and the ‘Restoring order and control’ policy paper

In response to the UK government’s recent policy paper, Restoring order and control (November 2025), the CEOs of leading anti-slavery charities have written to the Home Secretary to raise concerns about the potential impact on victims of exploitation. They warn that framing modern slavery protections through an immigration lens risks diverting attention from safeguarding, weakening accountability for traffickers, and preventing victims from being identified and supported.

Joint statement from CEOs on modern slavery protections and the ‘Restoring order and control’ policy paper

In response to the UK government’s recent policy paper, Restoring order and control (November 2025), the CEOs of leading anti-slavery charities have written to the Home Secretary to raise concerns about the potential impact on victims of exploitation. They warn that framing modern slavery protections through an immigration lens risks diverting attention from safeguarding, weakening accountability for traffickers, and preventing victims from being identified and supported.

what the 2025 CCLA Modern Slavery UK benchmark reveals and why it matters for businesses

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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.