National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify Statistics, 2014-2025

<p>Modern slavery is a term that includes any form of human trafficking, slavery, servitude or forced labour, as set out in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Potential victims of modern slavery in the UK that come to the attention of authorised ‘First Responder’ organisations are referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). </p>
<p>Adults (aged 18 or above) must consent to being referred to the NRM, whilst children under the age of 18 need not consent to being referred. As specified in section 52 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, public authorities in England and Wales have a statutory duty to notify the Home Office when they come across potential victims of modern slavery ('Duty to Notify' (DtN)). This duty is discharged by either referring a child or consenting adult potential victim into the NRM, or by notifying the Home Office via the DtN process if an adult victim does not consent to enter the NRM.</p>
<p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistical bulletins and aggregated data breakdowns on the
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">
National Referral Mechanism</a> webpage on the GOV.UK website regarding the number of potential victims referred each quarter. To allow stakeholders and first responders more flexibility in analysing this data for their own strategic and operational planning, the disaggregated, pseudonymised dataset used to create the aggregated published data is also available from the UK Data Service as 'safeguarded' data. (The UKDS data are available in SPSS, Stata, tab-delimited text and CSV formats.) </p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span></p>
<p>For the 18th edition (November <span>2025), the data file was amended to include Quarter 3 2025 cases, and the Data Notes documentation file was also updated. </span></p>

<p>现代奴隶制（Modern slavery）是指涵盖《2015年现代奴隶制法案（Modern Slavery Act 2015）》中规定的任何形式的人口贩运、奴隶制、劳役或强迫劳动的术语。在英国，被经授权的"一线响应机构（First Responder）"关注到的现代奴隶制潜在受害者，会被转介至国家转介机制（National Referral Mechanism，NRM）。</p><p>年满18周岁及以上的成年人必须同意被转介至国家转介机制，而未满18周岁的儿童则无需同意即可被转介。根据《2015年现代奴隶制法案》第52条的规定，英格兰与威尔士的公共机构负有法定通报义务（Duty to Notify，DtN）：当发现现代奴隶制潜在受害者时，需向内政部通报。该义务的履行方式包括：将儿童或同意被转介的成年潜在受害者转介至国家转介机制；若成年受害者不同意进入国家转介机制，则通过法定通报义务流程向内政部进行通报。</p><p>英国内政部会在GOV.UK网站的<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">国家转介机制</a>网页上发布季度统计公报与汇总数据细分报告，内容涵盖每季度转介的潜在受害者人数。为便于利益相关方与一线响应机构灵活分析该数据，以开展自身的战略与运营规划，用于生成上述汇总发布数据的细分假名化数据集，也可作为"受保护数据（safeguarded data）"从英国数据服务机构（UK Data Service）获取。（英国数据服务机构提供的数据格式包括SPSS、Stata、制表符分隔文本与CSV格式。）</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">最新版本信息</span></p><p>第18版（2025年11月）对数据文件进行了更新，纳入了2025年第三季度的相关案例，同时数据说明文档也同步完成了更新。</p>