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<p>Adults who enter the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) can receive specialist and
tailored support through the Victim Care Contract. This can include accommodation,
financial support and assistance in accessing mental and physical health care</p><p>We
ensure victims are safeguarded through robust contract management. The prime contractor
for the Victim Care Contract, The Salvation Army, is responsible for ensuring that
all subcontracted provision meets the needs of victims. The Salvation Army conducts
regular safeguarding reviews and it has a duty to escalate to the Home Office any
safeguarding concerns that it finds.</p><p>In October 2017, the Government announced
an ambitious package of reforms to the NRM. As part of that package, we are introducing
an inspection regime for accommodation provided through the Victim Care Contract.
This will ensure that victims of modern slavery are effectively safeguarded while
in the NRM. We are working with the Care and Quality Commission (CQC), the independent
regulator of health and social care in England, to develop this regime which will
be embedded in the new Victim Care Contract</p><p>The Government is unable to provide
an accurate figure for the number of confirmed victims who have been re-trafficked
after leaving the National Referral Mechanism.</p><p>We are working with the National
Crime Agency to improve our ability to identify potential re-trafficking cases. Our
reforms to introduce a new digital referral process will also improve our ability
to identify re-trafficking, as it will increase our knowledge of victims of modern
slavery and enable us to capture and analyse data to better aid prevention and law
enforcement activity. The digital referral form has already been launched for closed-beta
testing with a group of First Responders and it will go live at the end of the summer.</p>
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