The Justice Hub Podcast
By The Justice Hub
The Justice Hub Podcast Sep 13, 2022
Episode 4: An interview with author Channon Oyeniran - Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
In this special episode we speak to superstar author Channon Oyeniran about her debut children's chapter book - The Time Travel Adventures of Ara, Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. Bringing Black History alive in a new way by allowing Children to travel many years back in time on a thrilling adventure that turns children into heroes helping to free enslaved people.
Channon is a historian, geographer, public speaker, Black History consultant and the co-founder and director of Oyeniran Education Support Services. Channon is passionate about educating all, specifically youth and young people about black history and helping to empower them through the gift of knowledge and written word.
Episode 3: Introducing the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 series part 3. Section 54 - Transparency in Supply Chains
Andrew Smith Introduces Cristina Talens, Director of the Wilberforce Institute, Risk Assessment Unit. In this episode, Cristina talks about Section 54 - Transparency in Supply Changes.
Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires businesses with an annual turnover of 36 million or more to publish a 'slavery and human trafficking statement' (MSA statement) every year.
· Organisations are not required by the act to implement any strategy to combat slavery in their supply chain, they are well within their rights to publicly state that they are doing nothing to combat slavery within their supply chain
· According to tiscreport.org/there are 5,448 UK companies required to comply for which they could not find a statement
· Although there is a threat of an unlimited fine for non-compliance, 7 years after the introduction of the Act no companies have received a fine
For more information about the Justice Hub at the Wilberforce Institute visit https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/research/institutes/wilberforce-institute/our-work
Episode 2: Introducing the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 series part 2. Section 45 - The Statutory Defence for Victims
Andrew Smith talks to Dr Alicia Kidd about Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK).
Potential victims of modern slavery may be suspected or accused of committing criminal offences. Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides for a statutory defence for adult and child victims who have been forced, threatened, or deceived into committing certain crimes by their exploiters.
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Alicia talks about:
- The defence does not apply to the most serious crimes, such as sexual offences or offences involving serious violence.
- No quantitative data is collected on Section 45 so it’s difficult to get an accurate idea of when it is being used.
- There is still a lot of confusion around criminal exploitation with lots of examples of judges giving victims prison sentences while acknowledging that they were victims of MS
Episode 1: Introducing the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 series part 1
Our first episode!
Andrew Smith, manager of the Justice Hub at the Wilberforce Institute introduces the first in this podcast series about the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK). The Modern Slavery Act was introduced to give law enforcement the tools to fight modern slavery, ensure perpetrators receive suitably severe punishments and enhance support and protection for victims.
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Andrew talks about:
· The Home office acts as the Competent Authority (CA) on NRM decisions with the creation of a second authority, the Immigration Enforcement Authority (IEA) in late 2021 to look at NRM cases relating to immigration.
· The Salvation Army currently holds the contract for victim support services (Victim Care Contract)
· The Modern Slavery Act 2015 consolidates several previous slavery and human trafficking offences, and introduces new preventive measures, support systems and a regulatory body.