Domestic work happens behind closed doors, making it one of the most invisible forms of labour exploitation. Long hours, wage deductions, surveillance, denial of privacy, and restricted communication can all occur without oversight. This International Domestic Workers' Day, I want to highlight a few issues that are often overlooked.

The UK’s current response to human trafficking and slavery is creating a low-risk, high-reward environment for perpetrators while creating significant barriers for survivors to access support and protection.

The Times’ months-long investigative report demonstrates that the Skilled Worker Visa system is being leveraged by unscrupulous employers for the purpose of exploitation. ATLEU calls on the government to abolish employer-sponsored visas.

We are alarmed by the spirit and intent of the government’s new ‘earned settlement’ proposals, which will have an appalling impact on all migrants and especially on survivors of human trafficking and labour exploitation.

A care worker recruited during the pandemic has been recognised as a victim of human trafficking after being deceived, exploited and forced into debt bondage under the Health and Care visa system.

Eight survivors of trafficking have received £247,417 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) in a groundbreaking project from ATLEU.

If you are someone with lived experience of human trafficking/modern slavery and migration our new paid work opportunity may be right for you.

The Seasonal Worker Visa scheme as currently designed puts workers at risk of serious exploitation and abuse including debt bondage, trafficking and forced labour.

Just 4% of trafficking victims are granted permission to stay in the UK after escaping exploitation, reveals our new report, produced with Helen Bamber Foundation and EPCAT UK.

A new report, published today, calls on the government to make sweeping changes to the law and systems that impact survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.

Today on International Domestic Workers’ Day, we ask the UK government to listen to the voices of migrant domestic workers and reinstate their right to escape abuse by switching employers.

ATLEU has provided a statement in support of a legal challenge to the government’s new proposals to deny UK citizenship to those who arrive here illegally which will impact a large number of survivors of trafficking.