Our work has resulted in thousands of people rescued, criminal networks brought to justice and national laws changed to protect millions of people. At our annual partner event, we set out our plan to increase our impact and reach in the future over the next decade.
Breaking the grip of slavery around the world requires courage, resilience, excellence, ambition, focus and determination… every day I see how our teams have these qualities in bucket-loads.
– Christian Guy, Chief Executive, Justice and Care
We want to take all of our lessons and experience, helping to create a tipping point in the fight against slavery. Using all we have learnt, we plan to:
Expand our direct work
Like the criminal networks we are dismantling, our direct work straddles both source and destination countries for human trafficking. By delivering our proven strategy and pioneering new ways of succeeding, we will increase our impact and operational excellence.
Plans include growing our UK Victim Navigator programme – specialists embedded in police forces in the UK – to help those who have been rescued to rebuild their lives and help bring abusers to justice.
What stood out about Justice and Care was their values, principles and that they weren’t seeking to be pseudo law enforcement. They were seeking to add value without doing our job for us. And with absolute integrity.
– DCI Jennifer Bristow, Head of Operations and Development, Modern Slavery Police Transformation Unit
We will also grow our groundbreaking work in Bangladesh and will build a small Justice and Care team in Romania.
Convene a global network
We are building a small global network of front-line organisations, joining forces to fight slavery. Leveraging our knowledge and experience, to achieve change at scale.
We will undertake joint operations with partners to fight trafficking, prove and demonstrate best practice; share expertise and spark systemic change. The first joint operations partner will be LIFT International, based in Thailand. Like us, they work to dismantle trafficking networks. Together, with expertise and capital, we will help LIFT go on to create more impact in Thailand – building up their aftercare, prevention and systemic change work.
We often say it takes a network to combat a network. We are pleased to be part of Justice and Care’s network of like-minded individuals and organisations that can come together to make a significant impact.
– Justin Boswell, Chief Executive, LIFT International
Systemic Change Unit
Our anti-slavery operations are helping to set standards in various countries, shoulder-to-shoulder with front line agencies. We also have specialism in translating this case work into deep systemic change, so governments can fight this crime at scale. So a new Justice and Care Systemic Change Unit focused on disseminating best practice and equipping governments to act effectively, will take this work from our teams and joint operations to a new scale of impact.
The Unit will:
- Document and analyse operationally-informed practice that works, translating it into user-friendly formats
- Leverage this knowledge to influence the policymakers in key countries and international bodies to push the policy/legal environment in the right direction
- Create collaboration around this knowledge among operational leaders, by creating forums and driving joint work to increase impact
We know that this is a crucial missing ingredient in the fight against slavery.
What Justice and Care do makes a real difference to real people with real lives. This is the painstaking work that this organisation does – it marks them out from all the others.
– Rt Hon Frank Field MP
In the UK this begins in partnership with the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), the think tank that sparked, designed and steered the 2015 UK Modern Slavery Act into law. We are launching a joint Justice and Care – CSJ Unit, focussed specifically on the issue of human trafficking.