Episode 9: Anti-slavery Day 2023

Anti-Slavery Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the fact over 49.6 million people in the world today, and an estimated 136,000 people in the UK, are trapped in conditions of modern slavery. But it doesn’t have to be this way.The AoEC has made a long-term multi-year commitment to being part of the international campaign to end modern slavery. To help raise awareness of modern slavery in the coaching community, in this episode we discuss how coaching can help those working in organisations on the front line, as well as explore the realities of modern slavery in everyday communities.You can link with the host and guest panellist here:John Gray, senior faculty at the AoEC – Episode hostShayne Tyler, partner at Practical Ethics – guest panellist Useful linksFind out more about some of the resources mentioned in the discussion here:Modern Slavery Act 2015https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/modern-slavery-billGlobal Slavery Indexhttps://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/Human Trafficking definitionhttps://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/human-trafficking.htmlModern Slavery Helplinehttps://www.modernslaveryhelpline.org/Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authorityhttps://www.gla.gov.uk/Taken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)AoEC and modern slaveryhttps://www.aoec.com/ending-slavery/