Modern Slavery Victim Support

The service will need to demonstrate how it will provide immediate coordination of a mixture of mainstream and/or specialist services to meet an individual’s identified needs.

•Support victims of modern slavery to understand their rights and entitlements. Collaborate with victims to navigate local service provision supporting them, where required, through the criminal justice process. This support service should be provided on either a 1-2-1 or group session basis depending on the immediate need of the service user.

•Provide wide-ranging knowledge of activities and local, regional and national partner organisations involved in responding to modern slavery and human trafficking.

•Coordinate and provide trauma informed specialist agency response and support for victims. Collaborate with multi agency teams as necessary, who are responsible for victim support services, according to individual victims’ needs.

•Provide the single point of contact for the victim’s needs, liaise with the officers investigating their case and the multi-agency response.

•Support multi agency risk and harm management when safeguarding matters arise from first point of contact and throughout the ongoing investigations.

•Engaging with Social Care services to ensure the safeguarding of those individuals identified are responsive to a modern slavery and human trafficking trauma informed practice and arrange appropriate referrals to partner agencies.

•To actively participate in relevant practice-level multi-disciplinary team meetings as a subject matter expert ensuring a victims’ needs and rights are respected and heard throughout this process.

•Work in partnership with local authorities to assist in mapping a victim’s journey through Norfolk support services and identify any gaps in service provision. The service provider will be required to have in place appropriate information sharing management /agreements with partners. This will be supported by the OPCCN.

•Establish a strong relationship with the Norfolk Anti-Slavery Network partnership to utilise local, regional and national research and best practice to support, develop and innovated partnership policy and operational practice to modern slavery and human trafficking.

•Develop a trauma-informed approach to identification, protection, care and support for victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. Work in partnership with the Community Safety and Violence Reduction Modern Slavery Coordinator to develop modern slavery and human trafficking multi agency workshops for all staff (operational and strategic level) within authorities and organisations. Workshops will focus on identification signs and indicators; referral mechanisms; roles and responsibilities of public authorities first responders and non-first responder agencies; support available to those who enter the NRM and for those who do not consent to enter the NRM; victim care, risk management and safeguarding mechanisms.

•Develop and deliver community engagement to Norfolk community-based organisations and charities to share information and build a communication strategy together to disrupt modern slavery and human trafficking. (supported by the OPCCN)