Product Description
This statistical bulletin provides a summary and breakdown of the number of potential victims of modern slavery referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) or via the Duty to Notify (DtN) process from 1 January to 31 March 2025 (quarter 1). Please refer to the data tables on the accompanying CD-ROM for additional data.
Key results
- 5,297 potential victims of modern slavery were referred to the Home Office from January to March 2025, representing a 4% decrease compared to the previous quarter (5,538) and a 17% increase from January to March 2024 (4,517) the number of referrals received this quarter is the second-highest since the NRM began in 2009, behind only the record in the previous quarter
- 72% (3,826) were sent to the Single Competent Authority (SCA) for consideration and 28% (1,471) to the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority (IECA)
- the most common nationalities referred this quarter were UK (23%; 1,210), Vietnamese (12%; 645) and Eritrean (10%; 553)
- this was the highest number of referrals for UK and Vietnamese nationals in a quarter since the NRM began
- this was the first quarter since the start of the NRM data series in 2014 that Albanian nationals were not in the top 3 most referred nationalities
Product Data
- ISBN:
- 9781036688431
- Author:
- Home Office
- Publisher:
- Dandy Booksellers Ltd
- Pub Date:
- 13 May 2025
- Edition:
- 2025 Q1
- Format:
- Paperback
- Extent:
- 28 pages plus CD-ROM
- Dimensions:
- A4 (210 x 297 mm)
- Series:
- Home Office Statistical Bulletin
- Approx Wt:
- 0.15 kg
- HS Code:
- 490199