Slavery: Children
(asked on 25th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions under the Modern Slavery Act in 2017 were for cases involving victims under 18.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced, including offences charged by way of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 on its Case Management Information System. These data may be further disaggregated by the child abuse case monitoring flag. The CPS definition of child abuse covers any case where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence and allegations or crimes perpetrated by both adults and under 18s.
During the most recently available year, the number of Modern Slavery Act offences flagged as child abuse, is as follows:
- | 2016-2017 | |
- | Child Abuse Flagged Offences | Total Offences |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1(1)(a) and 5(1) } | 0 | 13 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1(1)(b) and 5(1) } | 0 | 10 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 2(1) and 5(1) } | 21 | 73 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 4 and 5(2) } | 0 | 1 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 4 and 5(3) } | 0 | 1 |
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System | ||
There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is often the case that defendants will be prosecuted for more than one offence in the same set of proceedings.