Legal advice is an essential part of the support needed by survivors of trafficking and slavery to escape, recover and rebuild their lives. Survivors need advice and assistance to navigate and engage with the complex systems through which they are identified, access accommodation and support, regularise their immigration status and recover compensation.

Our response to this review is informed by our day to day experience of practising public law and advising survivors of trafficking and slavery and those who help them.

Four barristers previously instructed by ATLEU have now been appointed as fee paid employment judges. Niran de Silva, Anna Beale, Akua Reindorf and Louise Price have all represented our clients in some of our most influential cases.

ATLEU are calling for an immediate change to the way legal aid payments are structured on trafficking cases.

ATLEU supports Black Lives Matter. We support the fight for racial justice and equality in the US, in the UK and around the globe. We recognise that racial oppression and murder cannot exist without the complicity and active support of the state and the very institutions that should be there to protect us all. We reject the idea that the protests we see happening here and around the world are in response to American racism alone - this is our enduring global crisis.

ATLEU will challenge the family worker exemption to the right to receive the national minimum wage. The challenge will be heard at the London South Employment Tribunal from 28 - 30 April 2020.

Far more needs to be done to ensure that victims of trafficking get access to justice say the Anti Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG). The ATMG and 10 other organisations, including ATLEU, has gathered evidence on how well the UK has implemented the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.

Last year, 1256 individuals who were given a positive reasonable grounds trafficking decision were detained in immigration removal centres according to the After Exploitation project, writes Tom Nunn, ATLEU solicitor.

The government has today released a new policy on support for confirmed victims of modern slavery.

ATLEU is gathering information about the experiences of victims of trafficking when they make applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA).

The Supreme Court granted ATLEU permission to appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal in MS (Pakistan). This gives the Supreme Court its first opportunity to consider complex issues concerning the identification of victims of trafficking.

The government has just released its report after a lengthy review into the impact of legal aid cuts.