The LGA has produced a range of guidance documents and toolkits to support councils with their work on modern slavery, all of which are available on this page.
The LGA has produced a range of guidance documents and toolkits to support councils with their work on modern slavery, all of which are available on this page.
We also have a suite of resources focusing specifically on tackling modern slavery in supply chains, as well as a portal of existing council transparency statements.
The LGA also aims to highlight some of the challenges councils experience in tackling modern slavery and the changes that would support councils in doing so, as set out in our submission to the update of the Government’s modern slavery strategy.
Other LGA resources
You may also be interested in:
- resources on the LGA website on support for unaccompanied children, who are at risk of being or becoming victims of modern slavery.
- a list of key safeguarding information and resources for council, care provider and wider partners' staff. Pulled together from working with a range of partners designed to help local councils and their partners fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities to adults in their local areas.
- our resource pack of child protection advice and guidance to keep children safe, including a resource pack on responding to and preventing child sexual exploitation
Featured pages
Council guide to tackling modern slavery
This revised modern slavery guidance provides an overview of modern slavery and the UK framework for tackling it, and provides targeted sections for officers working in different council services to help them understand their specific responsibilities.
Tackling modern slavery: council case studies
The case studies in this document build on the detailed guidance we published in 2017, and on the modern slavery workshops which we have held around the country.
Supporting modern slavery victims: guidance and good practice for council homelessness services
This new Local Government Association (LGA) guidance on modern slavery has been developed specifically for council officers leading and working in homelessness and housing services.