Official Statistics

Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify statistics UK, Quarter 1 2021 – January to March

Statistics on referrals to the National Referral Mechanism, for potential victims of modern slavery in quarter 1 2021.

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Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify statistics UK, Quarter 1 2021 – January to March: data tables second edition

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Potential victims of modern slavery in the UK that come to the attention of authorised ‘first responder’ organisations are referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). Authorised ‘first responder’ organisations include local authorities, specified non-governmental organisations (NGOs), police forces and specified government agencies.

Updates to this page

Published 3 June 2021
Last updated 27 January 2022 + show all updates
  1. An error in data processing was identified that resulted in the incorrect classification of some potential victims, primarily child potential victims, as age at exploitation 'Not recorded or unknown'. This has been corrected in the updated bulletin/data tables using an updated cut of data taken 7 December 2021. This error is related to data processing for the statistical bulletins, and did not affect the classification of referrals within the NRM system itself.

  2. First published.

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