Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 20 September 2017.
Let’s look at the Member’s question carefully, and, actually, we could consider this to be somewhat of a success here in Wales, where we are identifying the issues around slavery and capturing the slave drivers and prosecuting them, and that’s absolutely the thing we should do. That’s why there’s been, I believe, an increase in identification of this. We are the only country in the UK to appoint an anti-slavery co-ordinator, and we were the first in the UK to do that. I would encourage other parts of the UK to actively seek to appoint an anti-slavery co-ordinator because, as a country, we can deliver on this much better. The Member is right about making sure that key agencies, key workers, can identify early on where people are thought to be enslaved and that our intelligence agencies and support phone numbers are available for individuals to report that, if they are to be identified by individuals.