Hitting the headlines this week was the news of the conviction of two brothers who trafficked 18 people from Poland to the UK and conned them into modern slavery.
The pair recruited the vulnerable men to work at the Sports Direct warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, but were caught after one of the victims reported his ordeal to police in January 2016.
The brothers have both been sentenced to six years in prison for modern slavery.
Stories like this show how modern slavery doesn’t just affect developing countries, but the UK as well.
Sadly, the problem is not going away with over 1,746 cases reported in the UK in one year alone. That’s a 47% increase on reports from reports from the previous year (Source: UK National Referral Mechanism Statistics).