To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, how her Department gathers information to ensure that victims are safe once they have left the support service, if the town in which they have been placed is withheld on safety grounds.
Answered on
15 July 2014
Information on the whereabouts of adult victims, once they exit
Government-funded support services, is not routinely held.
Although there is no requirement under the UK's European Convention against
Trafficking obligations to support a victim once they have exited the service,
the Government is looking into ways to provide post-exit support to victims
which will enable continuous engagement with them, with the purpose of ensuring
their well-being and successful integration into mainstream society or
re-integration into their home country. This proposal is being considered as
part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and the retender of the
Government-funded support service.
Should the Home Office request information, including on the town and shelter
in which each victim is place and whether the victim has a conclusive grounds
decision, The Salvation Army is obliged to share it.