Modern slavery can be identified across a number of council areas including, but not limited to licensing, environmental health and trading standards, housing, procurement, community safety and social services. The report identifies key principles for leveraging existing frameworks, which are already used by licensing and enforcement teams across the 333 local authorities in England, to embed anti-modern slavery responses and to provide practical solutions and recommendations for enhancing anti-modern slavery provisions across licensed sectors.

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Introduction and Overview

Section 1 – How national licensing guidance can be strengthened to tackle modern slavery across the UK

Section 2 – How councils can update local licensing policies to directly address modern slavery

Section 3 – How local licensing teams can practically confront modern slavery in their daily operations

Concluding Remarks and Appendices