Modern Slavery and Trafficking

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:52 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:52, 14 November 2018

Can I commend the work of the St Giles Trust, who presented yesterday to the all-party group on looked-after children about the county lines project that is running in co-operation with a project in Gwent? We heard really alarming evidence of how these drug rings use looked-after children, care leavers and, of course, lots of other vulnerable people, and it's really important that those trapped in this sort of criminal activity realise that if they come forward as victims of modern slavery or human trafficking, they'll be supported and it'll be the larger, vast crime of their imprisonment in some terrible way—and we've heard some of the examples that are used—by these gangs that the police will focus on and prosecute.