Children referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for children who were identified as potential victims of modern slavery - Find a freedom of information request

Request is made to access to data in relation to children referred by your local authority to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for children who were identified as potential victims of modern slavery.

I understand that your local authority referred 5 children into the NRM in 2018, 29 in 2019, 36 in 2020, 28 in 2021, 34 in 2022 and 11 in Quarter 1 and 16 Quarter 2 of 2023.  However, the breakdown of these data is not available in the NRM statistics.

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your local authority. This Freedom of Information request is made to access to data in relation to children referred by your local authority to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for children who were identified as potential victims of modern slavery. Therefore, I would like you to provide me with:

1. Gender: How many of children referred to the NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023 were identified as males and females?

2. Nationality: What were the nationality of children referred to the NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023?

3. Location: What was the location of the exploitation in the UK for children referred to NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023? Please state how many of exploitations referred in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023 happened in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

4. Exploitation type: For children referred to the NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023, how many of them were recorded as potential victims of:

• Criminal exploitation
• Domestic exploitation
• Labour exploitation
• Sexual exploitation
• Organ harvesting
• Domestic and criminal exploitation
• Labour and criminal exploitation
• Sexual and criminal exploitation
• Domestic and labour exploitation
• Domestic and sexual exploitation
• Sexual and labour exploitation
• Criminal and domestic and sexual exploitation
• Criminal and labour and sexual exploitation
• Domestic and labour and sexual exploitation.

5. County lines: For children referred to the NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023, how many of them were recorded as potential victims of county lines?

6. Reasonable ground decision: For children referred to the NRM as potential victims of modern slavery by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023:

6.a. how many of them received a positive reasonable ground decision?

6.b. how many of them received negative reasonable ground decision?

7. Conclusive ground decision: For children referred to the NRM by your local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and in the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 of 2023,

7.a. how many of them received a positive conclusive ground decision

7.b. how many of them received negative conclusive ground decision?

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3. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) is unable to provide a response as it does not currently record or report on this data set.

4. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) is unable to provide a response as it does not currently record or report on this data set.

5. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) is unable to provide a response as it does not currently record or report on this data set.

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