RESEARCH REPORT
Readiness to Work as Prevention of Re-Trafficking: An Evaluation of the Sophie Hayes Foundation Employability Programme
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 down to read the Zine created with the research project's Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG).
Lunchtime seminar: Readiness to work as prevention of re-trafficking
Thursday 25th June, 12pm-1pm
Presentation: Dr Nicola Wright, University of Nottingham, and Emily Death, Sophie Hayes Foundation
Join us for a lunchtime seminar exploring new research on the Sophie Hayes Foundation Employability Programme and its role in supporting survivor recovery and reducing vulnerability to re-trafficking. Led by researchers from the University of Nottingham in partnership with the Sophie Hayes Foundation and King’s College London, the study examines the programme’s outcomes for survivors, alongside the costs and consequences of delivering this model of support. The session will present key findings and recommendations, with an opportunity for discussion and questions.
READ THE ZINE
Created with the research project's
Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG)
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