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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Diane Taylor

Home Office U-turns on policy to restrict help for trafficking victims

Suella Braverman
The trafficking policy was introduced by Suella Braverman, then home secretary, in January last year. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The Home Office has performed a U-turn on a policy to deprive some modern slavery victims of protection from traffickers.

Human rights campaigners and lawyers representing trafficking victims have welcomed the government’s change of heart, which they say reinstates vital protections to vulnerable people.

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