NHS England to be banned from using supply chains linked to slavery

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  1. This is just going to end up like fashion, isn’t it? The slave owners just obfuscated behind three or four layers of resellers who subcontract the work for a slice of the pie. There needs to be a better solution.

  2. Well sounds good to me. We really need to do more to crack down upon this problem.

    Slavery should be in the past by now.

  3. Strange flex to go after the NHS.

    But If you want a bigger impact to stamp out Modern Slavery in the UK you should go after the ***still* unlicensed British property Market where middlemen Letting agents give “plausible denialbility” cover for Landlords to fill houses in Middle Class British Suburbs with trafficked slaves to be abused for prostitution and more** at massive profit for organised crime willing to pay the premium for being hosted…

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/10/modern-slavery-uk-nca-human-trafficking-prostitution

    Quote from above link…

    >“People are being exploited on an hourly and daily basis. The full scale and extent of it, we don’t know. But what we have found is that in every medium-to-large town and every city in the UK, we have found evidence of vulnerable people being exploited,”

    Oh and British farms have a Modern Slavery problem…

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/19/ukrainian-workers-flee-modern-slavery-conditions-on-uk-farms

    **This is organised crime**, off the books , untaxed, human misery being allowed to establish a massive foothold in some of the most desirable parts of the UK.

  4. In some cases, it will be tough to prove the slavery. China is doing a lot to claim that Uyghar Muslims are not slaves in their factories but we all know the truth. Do we just take a company’s word that they are not using slaves or is there a more official way to check?

  5. That’s good, but what would be better if all the private firms with contracts to the NHS also have to abide by the same ethical standards.

    Otherwise, unfair competition leads to easy privatisation of our NHS

  6. There’s no reason the NHS should have more or less restrictions than any other organizations. If this is a good idea, apply it to the whole economy. If it isn’t don’t apply it to the NHS.

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