Season 2: Debbie talks to Amber Cagney, the Development Manager at West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network

Focus on Modern Slavery!

Join Debbie in conversation with Amber Cagney, the Development Manager at West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network. Amber has set up and runs a Big Lottery funded ‘place of safety’ for identified male survivors of modern slavery for the West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network, is developing a resource centre and identifying future opportunities for the network. Amber sits on the Modern Slavery Strategy Implementation Group for Victim Care and Support and the Home Office’s multi-agency assurance panel of independent professionals who have experience and expertise in working with survivors of modern slavery to add an additional layer of scrutiny to all negative ‘conclusive grounds’ decisions across the UK. Previous work history includes a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) subcontractor of the Salvation Army in various roles from caseworker to accommodation manager, both directly supporting survivors of modern slavery to access their rights and entitlements and developing and managing safe houses and their staff teams. Amber has a passion for improving survivor support, developing best practise guidance and training for professionals to improve the challenges that survivors and frontline organisations face and ensuring survivors of modern slavery are consulted and involved in development to ensure services are designed with their expertise and experience at their core. Debbie and Amber mention taking your Slavery Footprint. You can do this at http://slaveryfootprint.org/my-footprint