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<p>Under the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC), a lot of personal and protected
data is generated, stored and processed to enable delivery of key services to vulnerable
victims.</p><p>The Single Competent Authority (SCA), who manage the MSVC Contract
delivered by The Salvation Army (TSA), is currently reviewing how such data can be
appropriately handled for research purposes.</p><p>It is imperative to get the balance
right between ensuring that rich data can support insights into key operational and
policy activities, and ensuring that (when such data is utilised) it is done in ways
which are fully compliant with data protection rules and are transparent to the victims
themselves.</p><p>Service providers are already able to engage with TSA and the SCA
should they want to provide high level, non-identifying data for the purposes of research.</p><p>The
SCA has been communicating with MSVCC service providers about this ongoing work, and
the potential next steps in agreeing a contractual mechanism to manage any such future
research.</p>
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