All survivors have a right to identification, safety, support, secure status, justice and remedy.

We are campaigning for changes to systems and policies in order to make this a reality for all survivors.

Access to safety

Consultations

Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group and ATLEU response to call for evidence from the Public Committee for the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.
ATLEU response to Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ consultation on reforms to social housing allocations. Impact on victims and survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.
ATLEU Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee. Examination of the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom. Trafficking and modern slavery, and access to justice.

Joint briefing on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Report Stage (House of Commons)
Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill – Parliamentary Briefing, Second Reading – Monday 10 February 2025
Providing the right support and protection to survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery, including long-term leave to remain, is integral to ensuring that they can recover and rebuild their lives.

Briefings

There is a legal advice crisis for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery, large numbers of whom are not able to access timely and specialist legal advice.

We are calling for changes to legal aid funding to end this legal advice crisis.

Access to legal advice

Consultations

A joint response to the Consultation by the Ministry of Justice, Civil Legal Aid: Towards a Sustainable Future is by 16 civil society organisations working on trafficking and modern slavery.
Survivors of trafficking and modern slavery are not able to access specialist legally aided advice and representation when they need it due to a huge gulf in availability. This is having devastating consequences.
Survivors of trafficking and modern slavery are not able to access specialist legally aided advice and representation when they need it due to a huge gulf in availability.
ATLEU Submission to the Public Accounts Committee on the legal advice crisis for victims of trafficking and modern slavery.
We have repeatedly urged the government to take urgent action to address a legal aid sector that is collapsing now. The current situation is untenable and urgent.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) has had a devastating impact on the legal aid sector. Survivors are not able to access timely and quality legally aided advice and representation when they need it, with devastating consequences.

ATLEU report reveals how survivors of trafficking and modern slavery are being left destitute and at risk of exploitation as a result of a crumbling legal aid system that is failing to provide them with the support they need.

Reports

Survivors of trafficking and modern slavery are not able to access high quality and specialist legally aided advice and representation when they need it due to a huge gulf in availability.

Briefings

Compensation is crucial for recovery and sustainable freedom for survivors, helping them to avoid destitution and punish and deter traffickers. Yet, the number of survivors who are able to obtain compensation, either from their trafficker or the state, is woeful.

We are working for changes to law and policy so that survivors are compensated for the crimes committed against them.

Access to compensation

Consultations

Briefings

Trafficking and modern slavery is a criminal offence but there is no corresponding civil offence. A civil remedy of trafficking and modern slavery should be introduced into law to allow victims to recover compensation from their trafficker more easily.

Reports

Trafficking survivors have died before receiving a single penny of compensation because of the length of time it takes to successfully get through the government’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) process.

Access to safe migration

Restrictive, tied and temporary visa schemes in the UK are driving exploitation, trafficking and debt bondage of migrant workers.

We are campaigning so that migrant workers can access rights and remedy when abuse and exploitation occurs, and for an end to policies which drive exploitation.

Consultations

Briefings

First hand evidence of the serious levels of abuse that workers are facing in its submission to the Office of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (ODLME).

Access to safety

ATMG and ATLEU response to the Public Committee for the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, May 2025

ATLEU response to impact of social housing allocations on survivors, March 2024

ATLEU submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on trafficking and access to justice, February 2024

Coalition for Asylum Rights and Justice Joint briefing, May 2025

Joint parliamentary briefing on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, February 2025

Joint Briefing: Updated policy for granting temporary permission to stay for survivors, November 2024

Access to legal advice

Civil Legal Aid: Towards a Sustainable Future Joint response by organisations in the anti-trafficking and anti-slavery sector, March 2025

ATLEU response to Civil Legal Aid: Towards a Sustainable Future, March 2025

ATLEU Submission to the ATMG: Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) 4th evaluation round of the UK, October 2024

ATLEU submission to the Public Accounts Committee Call for Evidence - Value for Money from Legal Aid Inquiry, March 2024

ATLEU response to Ministry of Justice Review of Civil Legal Aid Consultation, February 2024

ATLEU’s response to the National Audit Office consultation on legal aid, July 2023

‘It has destroyed me’: A legal advice system on the brink, October 2022

ATLEU briefing on the legal advice crisis for survivors, March 2025

Access to compensation

ATLEU Response to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review: Additional consultation, September 2023

Joint response calling for the removal of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme ‘unspent conviction rule’, August 2022

The need for a civil remedy of trafficking and modern slavery: Compensating survivors and punishing traffickers, September 2023

Survivors of trafficking and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, November 2020

Access to safe migration

Seasonal Worker Interest Group submission to the Office of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (ODLME), February 2025

Ensuring Safety and Dignity for Migrant Workers in the UK, July 2024

Protecting workers on the UK’s Seasonal Worker Scheme: A call to action for the next government, June 2024