Home Office Handling of Modern Slavery a ‘Shambles,’ Tory MP Tells Minister

Home Office Handling of Modern Slavery a ‘Shambles,’ Tory MP Tells Minister
Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Sarah Dines walks in Downing Street in London on Jan.11, 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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The Home Office’s handling of the UK’s skyrocketing modern slavery cases has been branded a “shambles” after MPs heard a new group set up to tackle the scourge has yet to meet.

Safeguarding minister Sarah Dines faced a fiery backlash from the Home Affairs Select Committee after revealing stakeholders involved in the government’s new modern slavery forums have failed to sit around a table.

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