Collaboration - Poppy Project

[Fernando Berdion Del Valle]

Looking at our recommendation to Provide Shelter jointly run by NGO and Gov, we may want to build on the partnership already established by the Poppy Project. This is an excerpt on them from the 2012 Olympic Trafficking Report. 

It sounds like they already provide some training to law enforcement. Should we signal them out specifically in the bullet point?

Here's the info:

The POPPY Project

The POPPY Project is a national project run by Eaves and funded by the Ministry of Justice. They provide accommodation and support to women who have been trafficked into prostitution or domestic servitude.

Their acute service provides 54
bed spaces and additional support services to trafficked women. Due
to increased demand for the service, they also now run an outreach service which provides advice and support on accessing services
and legal support. This service is delivered closely with other agencies and is intended as a short term crisis intervention service.

Through their outreach service, the POPPY Project also delivers training to law enforcement agencies and statutory and voluntary organisations which come into contact with women that have been trafficked. 

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Fernando Berdion Del Valle
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Harvard Kennedy School
email: Fernando_Berd...@hks14.harvard.edu
mobile: 512.431.0938

[Dan Bowles]

We should all take a few minutes to flip through this report, which came out last month.  It's a pretty damning report of the UK's lack of political will to stop human trafficking.  Here's the Guardian article to go along with it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/09/shameful-failure-slavery-trafficking-uk

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[Fernando Berdion Del Valle]

Another point / quote for the collaboration piece. More NGOs does not equal more efficacious response:

"The CSJ has heard evidence from NGOs, government, police and local authorities, that rather than this rapid proliferation of NGOs being a dynamic and positive force, it is at times detrimental to progress. Despite the significant numbers of NGOs working in the field, there remains a lack of coordination and collaboration and at times an unwillingness to share intelligence, information and resources, both between NGOs themselves and with other statutory authorities. This is often due to a lack of trust between agencies, and a need for more open information-sharing practices." 

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Fernando Berdion Del Valle <fber...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Dan, this is great. In many ways, I think this reinforces our work so far. If you look at the three recs:

The UK Border Agency should be removed as a "competent authority" in charge of the government's system for identifying and protecting suspected trafficking victims.

Responsibility in government for human trafficking and modern slavery should be transferred from the immigration minister to the policing and criminal justice minister in the Home Office.

A new Modern Slavery Act should outline the obligation to investigate indicators of slavery.

All police officers should receive training on how to identify victims of human trafficking.

Trainee social workers should be taught about the risks of child trafficking.

Police should be tasked to proactively investigate the links between missing children and child trafficking.

The first two are beyond the scope of Mayor Johnson, and the last one is very similar to one of our recommendations.

Also, maybe we can cite this lack of understanding as one of the "problems" in the culture section. I'll dig in more to see if we can get more specific number from the report.

Thanks again Dan