TAKE OFF THE BLINDFOLD and put a stop to modern day slavery! Dr Mike Emberson CEO Migrant Help.

TAKE OFF THE BLINDFOLDand put a stop to modern day slavery!

Dr Mike Emberson

CEO Migrant Help

Who Are Migrant Help

●A charity established in 1963 by Helen Ellis MBE to help foreign nationals in distress in the UK

●Ports & docks & au pairs!●A project based organisation emerges –

Ugandan Asians, Bosnian evacuations and an Ostend office

●The Asylum Years●Where we are now – human trafficking

• Asylum Seekers (London, Kent and Sussex)• Refugees (London, Kent & Sussex, currently

bidding for a National contract)• Foreign National Prisoners (Kent and Essex)• Migrants (Kent & capacity building in South

East)• Non-EU Migrant Workers (Suffolk)• An Interpretation Service (200 interpreters, 120

languages, telephone & face to face across the UK)• Human Trafficking (Support services across

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)

What We Do

Work to Date

●Numbers by gender (484 since 4 June 2008)

●Type of Exploitation

●Nationalities Top Ten

●Nationalities other

Outcomes

Home Nations

Types of Help

●Support during Reflection Periods●Support to Law Enforcement Operations●International Work●Awareness Raising

Supporting Op Mockday in Glasgow

Op Mockday Accommodation

Training in Romania

Launch of NI Services

Op Cotswold Peterborough Recovering Victim’s Property

Staff teamOp Component

Practitioner’s Training Day

Labour & Domestic Servitude

•Domestic Servitude – personal servants and slaves

●Labour- agriculture, fisheries, meat processing factories, garment industry, packaging factories, retail, catering, car washes , construction industry

●Marijuana cultivation/security

•Organised petty crime – pirate CD/DVDS, shoplifting, mobile phone theft, pick pocketing, dog stealing

•Street Scene’ crime – begging, newspaper & Big Issue sales, ‘scouting’, squeegee work

•Identity theft - Benefit and tax credit fraud

•Money laundering – multiple bank accounts

•Sham marriages - bride slavery

Op Panreth - Hertfordshire not the stolen dogs!

Challenges

●Assessing the size, scope & extent of the problem

●Identifying victims●Getting victims to cooperate●Securing convictions●Resources!

How Can You Help?

Keep your eyes open & report using confidential numbers if necessary

Form Community Action Teams – work with PSNI

Political campaigning

Raise awareness raising

Targeted purchases & boycotts

Social Network sites

Donate!

Prayer

For further advice or to discuss future operations please contact Ms Charlotte Kirkwood

07789171963

[email protected]

Trafficking Services Coordinator

Migrant Help