Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to include survivors’ voices when designing and delivering its response to modern slavery.

We are committed to embedding the survivors’ voice in future policy. We have recently undertaken a piece of work to engage with survivors directly, to better understand their recovery needs and their experiences of the National Referral Mechanism, placing survivors at the core of policy development.

We have worked with the Care Quality Commission to deliver an independent inspection regime across the new Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract. As part of this work, survivors will be given the opportunity to provide feedback on the quality of the support services they receive whilst living in safehouse accommodation and/or in receipt of outreach support.

Through the NRM Transformation Programme we will continue to examine how best we can engage survivors to inform our response to modern slavery.