modern slavery, carbon credits, and survivor support – July 2024 webcast

Dive into the link between modern slavery, climate change, and carbon credits. Plus, discover how you can support survivors through employment opportunities with insights from Bright Futures Cooperative.

modern slavery, carbon credits, and survivor support – July 2024 webcast

Dive into the link between modern slavery, climate change, and carbon credits. Plus, discover how you can support survivors through employment opportunities with insights from Bright Futures Cooperative.

Modern slavery in construction factsheet: quarter four 2022 to quarter three 2023

Latest trends in modern slavery – February 2024 webcast

Catch up on the latest trends in modern slavery with Unseen’s February Business Hub webcast. Gain updates on Helpline statistics, legal developments, emerging threats like forced scamming, and upcoming fundraising opportunities.

Latest trends in modern slavery – February 2024 webcast

Catch up on the latest trends in modern slavery with Unseen’s February Business Hub webcast. Gain updates on Helpline statistics, legal developments, emerging threats like forced scamming, and upcoming fundraising opportunities.

Hidden threats in care, seafood, and AI – November 2023 webcast

unseen in focus 2023 edition

Unseen In Focus is your supporter magazine, with news on modern slavery issues around the world and the work of Unseen.

unseen in focus 2023 edition

Unseen In Focus is your supporter magazine, with news on modern slavery issues around the world and the work of Unseen.

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unseen business impact report 2022

Welcome to the latest impact report for Unseen Business – a snapshot of the many ways we’ve worked with you in 2022.

unseen business impact report 2022

Welcome to the latest impact report for Unseen Business – a snapshot of the many ways we’ve worked with you in 2022.

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behind the helpline – june 2023 webcast

In this June Business Hub webcast, we lift the veil on the inner workings of the Helpline and explore crucial findings from the Helpline Assessment. Plus, hear from our Head of Policy and Research on survivor inclusion.

behind the helpline – june 2023 webcast

In this June Business Hub webcast, we lift the veil on the inner workings of the Helpline and explore crucial findings from the Helpline Assessment. Plus, hear from our Head of Policy and Research on survivor inclusion.

latest trends in modern slavery

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.