Test Valley Community Safety Partnership
Modern Slavery
What is modern slavery?
Modern slavery encompasses human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour and can include:
- sexual exploitation;
- labour exploitation;
- forced criminality;
- organ harvesting;
- domestic servitude;
- debt bondage.
Anyone can become a victim of modern slavery, with particularly vulnerable groups including:
- unaccompanied, internally displaced children;
- children accompanied by an adult who is not their relative or legal guardian;
- young girls and women;
- former victims of modern slavery or trafficking.
Test Valley Borough Council is committed to reducing modern slavery and aims to reduce the impact on people in the borough.
This statement sets out Test Valley Borough Council’s actions to understand potential modern slavery risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in its own business and its supply chains.