Over the last three financial years, the Home Office has allocated approximately £3m to the provision of Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTGs) in early adopter sites, broken down as: 2017/18, £0.5m; 2018/19, £1m; 2019/20, £1.53m. Home Office budget allocations for 2020/21 are currently being agreed.<\/p>
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The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the UK\u2019s system for identifying and providing access to support for potential victims of modern slavery.<\/p>
Potential victims have their individual support needs assessed on entry to the NRM and through contact with their support worker while they remain in the system awaiting a conclusive grounds (CG) decision. The Recovery Needs Assessment is conducted after a positive CG.<\/p>
The RNA enables support workers to consider whether a victim has any ongoing recovery needs arising from their modern slavery experience.<\/p>
The information requested on RNA data does not currently form part of the published NRM statistics. The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics<\/a><\/p> The UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government how many victims of human trafficking with a positive (1) reasonable, and (2) conclusive, grounds decision are currently held in immigration detention.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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