Re: Nearly two thirds of modern slavery claims by Albanians rejected after Government crackdown

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Nearly two thirds of modern slavery claims by Albanians have been rejected
after the Government launched a crackdown.

Home Office figures show 63.1 per cent of initial claims by Albanians were
turned down in the first quarter of this year.

This compared with 11.3 per cent in the previous quarter before the
tougher rules for modern slavery claims were introduced on January 30 this
year.

The new policy, foreshadowed by Rishi Sunak in December, required victims
to provide “objective” evidence of trafficking in order for the Government
to deem them a potential victim of slavery.

The higher threshold was introduced after the Prime Minister and Home
Secretary Suella Braverman claimed that Albanians were “unfairly
exploiting” or “gaming” the modern slavery system in order to remain in
the UK. If approved at the initial stage, it can take more than 500 days
to reach a conclusive decision on a case.

However, Mrs Braverman has now been forced to withdraw the guidance after
a legal challenge by two potential trafficking victims who claimed it
breached their rights to be protected from slavery under the European
Convention on Human Rights. She has pledged to devise and publish new
guidance by July 10.

Since the tougher rules were introduced the number of cases recognised as
genuine has fallen sharply, down from 1,034 out of 1,191 (or 88.7 per
cent) for Albanians in the last quarter of 2022 to 452 out of 773 (36.9
per cent) in the first quarter of this year.

Albanians represented the biggest drop, down 57.6 per cent, compared with
a fall of 41 per cent for Vietnamese, 35.3 per cent for Eritreans, 30 per
cent for Sudanese, 19.3 per cent for Iranians and 15.4 per cent for
Britons.

Albanians are the largest group of people reported to the Home Office’s
national referral mechanism (NRM) for assessing claims of modern slavery.
They accounted for 1,452 of all potential victims, 31 per cent of the
total. Britons were the second most common, followed by Sudanese.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. We are
committed to tackling it, and ensuring victims are given the support they
need to rebuild their lives.

“The National Referral Mechanism provides support to thousands of victims
of modern slavery each year, unfortunately some people seek to exploit the
system. The Illegal Migration Bill includes measures to prevent misuse of
the NRM, and to stop the boats.”

It came as the Government suffered a series of further defeats in the
House of Lords on its bill including by 214 to 150 votes on an amendment
to prevent the deportation of victims of modern slavery who have been
exploited in the UK.

Peers also voted by 230 to 152 to retain the 24-hour limit on the
detention of unaccompanied children, which maintains the status quo. The
Government had refused to put a time limit on it. In another defeat, the
Lords backed by 226 votes to 152 a move to retain the 72-hour limit on the
detention of pregnant women.

They came as migrant crossings set a new record for the month of June,
pushing the total so far this year to 11,434. This includes 155 migrants
arriving in three boats on Friday, taking the total for June alone to
3,824. This is the highest total for the month of June since records began
five years ago.

Jakub Sobik, communications director at the Modern Slavery and Human
Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, said: “It is not clear whether people
who were rejected under the now withdrawn guidance will have their cases
automatically reconsidered. We look forward to seeing the revised
guidance.

“We need further data and evidence to fully understand what factors might
be driving the reduced positive reasonable grounds decision rate and the
impact this is having on people referred into the modern slavery support
system.”

Alp Mehmet, chair of think tank Migration Watch, said: “The Modern Slavery
Act has been a major loophole that people traffickers were only too ready
to exploit. If the government’s more rigorous approach to assessing
applications from Albanians has led to a larger proportion of baseless
claims failing, and it seems it has, this is good news; both for
immigration control and the taxpayer, who ultimately foots the bill.”

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