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training in modern slavery awareness
and how to take action

Unseen offers high-quality, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited training for:

  • businesses in all sectors
  • statutory services such as the police, local government and the NHS
  • other charities and NGOs
  • teenagers at risk of exploitation and schools.

    • We have trained thousands of people using statistics and real-life case studies from the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, plus the latest data from the Home Office. All funds we raise through Unseen’s training directly supports the Helpline and survivor support services.
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    face-to-face
    training

    Choose from our standard 3-hour CPD-accredited package or talk to us about our bespoke packages.

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    Online training

    A cost-effective way of raising awareness and understanding, and can be completed at work or from the comfort of your home

    e-learning courses

    awareness raising in school

    Many children don’t think they’re at risk of exploitation. Spotlight, our awareness-raising programme for schools, helps young people protect themselves against sexual exploitation and forced criminality.

    Contact us about Spotlight
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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.