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In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as 'world-leading'. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary assessment of progress with the Act and its two counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland.1 This article reviews the origins of discussions about modern slavery in the UK, describes the process leading to the passage of the Modern Slavery Act(s) and attempts an early evaluation of their effectiveness. It concludes that much remains to be done to ensure that they achieve their goal of abolishing modern slavery in the UK.

In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as 'world-leading'. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary assessment of progress with the Act and its two counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This article reviews the origins of discussions about modern slavery in the UK, describes the process leading to the passage of the Modern Slavery Act(s) and attempts an early evaluation of its effectiveness. It concludes that much remains to be done to ensure that they achieve their goal of abolishing slavery in the UK.

In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as "world-leading". This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary assessment of progress with the Act and its two counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This article reviews the origins of discussions about modern slavery in the UK, describes the process leading to the passage of the Modern Slavery Act(s) and attempts an early evaluation of its effectiveness. It concludes that much remains to be done to ensure that they achieve their goal of abolishing slavery in the UK.

I approached reviewing this book with considerable interest. Having been active in community development in one form or another for about 50 years, I had observed the changing nature of the relationship between what was happening under the umbrella of this term in the USA and that in the UK with both intellectual and practical curiosity. When I first started serious work in community development, (and indeed before that as a postgraduate student), disregarding literature from UK writers who drew on their experience as colonial administrators, most of the literature available to us originated from the USA, dominated by the-then more radical – or so it seemed – methods of Alinsky which challenged the rather more mainstream books which reflected in their authors' eyes the notion of community development as one of the three methods of social work. Even the two influential reports emanating from the Gulbenkian Foundation had to dig hard to find a significant UK-based canon.

This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.

This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.

This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.

Following attacks on multiculturalism and its replacement with a de-racialized concept of community cohesion, the dimension of 'race' is steadily disappearing from public policy. The process was started during New Labour's last term of office but has accelerated since the election of the Coalition government. Equality is now officially a 'dirty word', equality impact assessments a bureaucratic burden, and the public sector equality duty an obstacle to rapid policy change at local level. National and local statutory and voluntary organizations concerned with racial equality are being dismantled or downsized and a series of political pronouncements gives nods and winks to those wishing to ignore the issue of racial disadvantage. Meanwhile, minorities are hit hardest by public expenditure cuts, are disproportionately criminalized in the criminal justice system, and are increasingly affected by racism and 'race' hate crime.