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“Introduction to and Overview of the Forced Labour Monitoring Group”

“Introduction to and Overview of the Forced Labour Monitoring Group”. Dr Sam Scott, University of Exeter sam.scott@exeter.ac.uk. Outline. FLMG Pilot A Permanent FLMG? FLMG Outputs Today’s Agenda. 1. FLMG Pilot. Overview

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“Introduction to and Overview of the Forced Labour Monitoring Group”

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  1. “Introduction to and Overview of the Forced Labour Monitoring Group” Dr Sam Scott, University of Exeter sam.scott@exeter.ac.uk

  2. Outline • FLMG Pilot • A Permanent FLMG? • FLMG Outputs • Today’s Agenda

  3. 1. FLMG Pilot Overview • Focal point for academic and policy discussion around work-based harm • 12-month ‘pilot’ project • Funded by ESRC • Draft web-site and 5 workshops • UK and forced labour focus • Permanent initiative?

  4. 1. FLMG Pilot Aims: • Improve understanding and awareness of forced labour and other types of work-based harm; • Draw together diverse stakeholders to debate the FLMG idea; • Establish what a permanent FLMG network could look like and do; • Discuss where an FLMG would be located and how it would be funded; • Compare the FLMG model to other options to address work-based harm.

  5. 1. FLMG Pilot Input: • Future FLMG workshops; • Interest in permanent FLMG after 2013; • Opinions around evolving FLMG pilot; • FLMG surveys on how forced labour should be defined; • Comment via email on draft web-site.

  6. 1. FLMG Pilot Organisation: • Sam Scott (University of Exeter) • Alex Balch (University of Liverpool) • Gary Craig (University of Durham) • Alistair Geddes (University of Dundee) • Kendra Strauss (University of Cambridge) Generic email: info@forcedlabour.org

  7. 2. A Permanent FLMG? Three Permanent Options: • Independent and stand-alone • Politically-embedded (e.g. APPG model) • NGO-embedded (e.g. ASI)

  8. 2. A Permanent FLMG? Two issues over scope: • UK or International? • Forced labour or worker harm? NB. Forced labour is minimal in the UK: “The 20 (UK forced labour prosecution) scenario should be seen as a worst case scenario. There would probably be even less than 10 per annum.” (Ministry of Justice, 2010: 9-10)

  9. 3. FLMG Outputs • Draft web-site ‘forcedlabour.org’; • Academic publications; • Collaborative policy paper (from final workshop); • 5 FLMG workshops.

  10. 3. FLMG Outputs

  11. 3. FLMG Outputs • Academic Publications • Book (Work-Based Harm) • Journal articles (could involve non academic authors ...) • Collaborative Policy Paper • Via workshops • To be planned at 5th workshop

  12. 3. FLMG Outputs Workshop 2 “Forced Labour and the Devolved Administrations” Organiser: Alistair Geddes Contact: A.Y.Geddes@dundee.ac.uk Date: April 2013 Location: Edinburgh

  13. 3. FLMG Outputs Workshop 3 “Legal Responses to Forced Labour in the UK” Organiser: Kendra Strauss Contact: ks638@cam.ac.uk Date: June 2013 Location: Cambridge

  14. 3. FLMG Outputs Workshop 4 “Forced Labour and the Business Angle” Organiser: Alex Balch Contact: A.R.Balch@liverpool.ac.uk Date: September 2013 Location: Liverpool

  15. 3. FLMG Outputs Workshop 5 “Forced Labour Round-Up Meeting” Organiser: Gary Craig Contact: gary.craig@garyc.demon.co.uk Date: December 2013 Location: London

  16. 4. Today’s Agenda 11am-11:45am Session 1: Introduction to and Overview of the FLMG 12-1pm                 Session 2: Approaches to Forced Labour in the UK and Beyond 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3pm Session 3: Prevention, Protection and Prosecution 3:15pm -4:15pm Session 4: Forced Labour as a Migration and Trafficking Issue

  17. 4. Today’s Agenda Session 2: Approaches to Forced Labour in the UK and Beyond • Roger Plant (Independent Consultant): “Combating Forced Labour: A Global Perspective” • Nick Clark (London Metropolitan University): “Forced Labour as a Labour Market Phenomenon in Europe". • Louise Woodruff (Joseph Rowntree Foundation): “Research Insight into Forced Labour in the UK”

  18. 4. Today’s Agenda Session 3: Prevention, Protection and Prosecution • Mick Wilkinson (University of Hull, WISE):“One step forward, two steps back: who will protect the unprotected?” • Richard Dunstan (CAB) “The likely impact of recent employment law and ET reforms on vulnerable workers in the UK” • Jenny Moss (Kalayaan): “Migrant domestic workers in the UK: When does under-regulated work become forced labour”? 

  19. 4. Today’s Agenda Session 4: Forced Labour as a Migration and Trafficking Issue • Don Flynn (Migrants’ Rights Network): "Forced Labour - how much of it is about migration?" • Sarah Lowe (EHRC) “Forced Labour: Current Issues and Debates” • Louise Waite (University of Leeds) and Peter Dwyer (University of Salford): “Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and the UK Asylum System.”

  20. Thank You! Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Discussion?

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