Sophie Hayes Foundation has been working with our partners at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham and the Modern Slavery Policy Evidence Centre on a research project, looking at access to employment for survivors and its role in preventing re-trafficking and re-exploitation.

Over the last 15 years, we have seen how access to opportunities, workplace skills, and a community of support can be transformational in empowering women survivors of modern slavery and exploitation to rebuild lives of freedom, independence, and autonomy for the long-term. This project is allowing us to contribute to the expert evidence base around re-exploitation, which is still little known and understood. Through this, we aim to shift the nature of support in the UK to better focus on breaking cycles of risk and vulnerability.

Read the report by clicking below, and scroll to view our survivor-led research output: Safe but Stagnant.