Campaigners say not enough victims are being identified before Home Office moves to lock them up
The number of trafficking victims locked up in immigration detention centres has increased more than tenfold in the last four years according to data shared with the Guardian.
The charity Focus on Labour Exploitation (Flex) obtained freedom of information data showing that in 2017 86 people – 14% of those suspected of being victims of trafficking – obtained what is known as positive reasonable grounds decisions after being locked up.
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