New Farm Work Welfare app launched to tackle labour exploitation

A new Farm Work Welfare app will see thousands of farmers and workers across the UK benefit from ‘valuable’ support and information in a bid to tackle labour exploitation.

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New Farm Work Welfare app launched to tackle labour exploitation

Bishop Alastair Redfern, who chairs the Clewer Initiative, highlighted the victims of modern slavery were often kept by highly organised, criminal gangs in remote locations. "These gangs pose as legitimate...

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