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THE Tories cruel Borders Bill will have a “massively detrimental” impact on child trafficking victims, putting them further at risk of criminal exploitation, leading charities have warned.
More children are likely to go unidentified, unprotected and punished under contentious changes to modern day slavery laws in the Nationality and Borders Bill, the open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel and Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi warns.
The letter, signed by eight leading children’s charities including the Children’s Society, comes ahead of the return of the Bill to the Commons tomorrow.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped