To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer
of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, how her Department
gathers information to ensure that victims are safe once they have left the support
service, if the town in which they have been placed is withheld on safety grounds.
<p> </p><p>Information on the whereabouts of adult victims, once they exit <br>Government-funded
support services, is not routinely held.<br><br>Although there is no requirement under
the UK's European Convention against <br>Trafficking obligations to support a victim
once they have exited the service, <br>the Government is looking into ways to provide
post-exit support to victims <br>which will enable continuous engagement with them,
with the purpose of ensuring <br>their well-being and successful integration into
mainstream society or <br>re-integration into their home country. This proposal is
being considered as <br>part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and
the retender of the <br>Government-funded support service.<br><br>Should the Home
Office request information, including on the town and shelter <br>in which each victim
is place and whether the victim has a conclusive grounds <br>decision, The Salvation
Army is obliged to share it.</p><p> </p>
