Join Sophie Blanchard, Operations Manager of the Wilberforce Institute and the Violence Prevention Partnership's Project and Impact Manager. This Wilberforce Business Academy session will focus on The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and how this framework is used to identify and support victims of modern slavery in the UK.

The session will be followed by a Q&A, where participants can ask their own questions.

The Wilberforce Business Academy has been set up to provide businesses and third-sector organisations with practical training on how to apply due diligence and best practices in the recruitment and management of workers across global supply chains.

Our online training programme has been designed to help organisations meet the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act and EU Due Diligence laws and examine issues of slavery and exploitation from a business perspective. Provided free of charge, these bite size one-hour training sessions build on the expertise of labour and human rights practitioners who have direct experience of conducting risk assessments and working alongside businesses, NGOs and trade unions to improve the living and working conditions of workers worldwide.

Our programme lead is the Wilberforce Institute's Cristina Talens, who is a social auditor and one of the foremost practitioners in this field. Cristina’s international experience in labour, human rights and ethical trading stretches over 25 years and includes:

working on labour exploitation of migrant workers in agriculture across the EU, Central & Latin America and Africa;

developing re-integration programmes for victims of modern slavery

across the EU;

acting as a consultant researcher on the UN Global Programme Against Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings;

conducting regular social audit and research assignments on behalf of major UK supermarkets and food companies; and

delivering labour, human rights and ethical training programmes for companies' technical, HR and procurement teams.

More information about the Wilberforce Business Academy can be found here.

www.hull.ac.uk/businessacademy

The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and victim support