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Join our live webinar to explore new Helpline insights on modern slavery

Be among the first to explore the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline’s latest data on victims, exploiters and emerging trends. Join experts from Unseen to understand what the findings mean for tackling modern slavery.
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Join the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline’s Annual Assessment live webinar from 1.30pm to 2.30pm on Tuesday 28 April to access the latest 2025 data on modern slavery and labour abuse. 

This free online event will present new insights from the Helpline’s data, offering a clearer picture of the scale and nature of exploitation being reported across the UK. 

The session will be live streamed from Unseen’s Human First Summit, a forum bringing together business members and key stakeholders to turn lived experience into meaningful business action. 

What you will learn

Be among the first to hear about: 

  • The volume of calls, web forms and app submissions received by the Helpline. 
  • Potential victim and exploiter numbers and demographics. 
  • Types of exploitation reported and emerging trends. 

 

You will also hear from experts at Unseen on what this information means for efforts to prevent exploitation and support survivors. 

Who should attend?

This free event is essential for anyone invested in combating modern slavery, including: 

  • Statutory and non-statutory professionals working in the anti-slavery sector. 
  • Policy-makers shaping laws and regulations. 
  • Businesses seeking to strengthen ethical practices. 
  • Police and legal professionals addressing exploitation cases. 
  • Civil servants and local and national government staff working on social justice. 
  • Supporters and donors passionate about ending exploitation. 

Why this live webinar matters

Modern slavery remains a pressing national and global issue, and understanding the latest Helpline data is critical for effective intervention and prevention. 

This briefing will equip attendees with the latest knowledge, empowering them to take action and shape policies and strategies that tackle modern slavery and ensure support for survivors. 

Can’t attend on the day? No problem. Register anyway and we’ll send you the full recording afterwards.

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If you have any queries about the webinar, please email us.

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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.