Trafficking victims may be able to recover in UK in Home Office U-turn

The Home Office had previously claimed that vulnerable people who had been trafficked could access care in their own countries. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy

Thousands of trafficking victims at risk of being forcibly removed from the country will now have their right to recover in the UK from the effects of exploitation considered after the Home Office settled a major case.

The Home Office had argued that people could access treatment in their home countries or that they could be removed because they were not midway through treatment in the UK.