Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify statistics UK, Quarter 1 2025 - January to March

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