The Rights Track

In Episode 2 of Series 3 of The Rights Track we talk to Dr Alison Gardner, from the University of Nottingham who leads the Rights Lab’s ‘Slavery-Free Communities’ initiative. Through work with statutory, business and voluntary-sector partners, Alison’s research is developing policy and community-centred responses to modern slavery.  The research aims to make the city of Nottingham a slavery free city by 2030. 0.00-3.21 Alison explains how she and the Rights Lab team are working to define and explain what a slavery free community looks like Much attention on the national picture, but to date very little has been done to understand what slavery looks like at a local level - this is a gap in policy because most work to prevent it takes place locally Slavery free communities project is all about responding to the problem at a local level using available resources and better serving people to respond to and then prevent modern slavery 3.21-10.18 Discussion on how people may be ‘rescued’ from slavery but then go