Home Office releases statistics on potential modern slavery victims referred into the National Referral Mechanism

The key results include: 4,524 potential victims of modern slavery were referred to the Home Office from Jan to Mar 2024, representing a 9% increase compared to the period from Oct to Dec 2023 (4,134) and a 5% decrease compared to the period from January to March 2023 (4,738) 73% (3,291) of potential victims were male and 27% (1,226) were female since the NRM began…