Advice for professionals
We offer free advice for lawyers, advocates and support professionals assisting survivors of trafficking and slavery across England and Wales.
We help with advice queries made by a professional on behalf of a survivor, in the areas of law practised by our legal team and other issues within our knowledge.
This advice service is for professionals only. We are unable to provide advice directly to survivors under this service. If you would like us to take on a legal case for yourself, or a friend, family member or acquaintance, please visit our legal help page and complete the request for legal help form,
This is not an urgent or emergency advice service.
ATLEU caseworkers answer the advice queries and because we are a small team this affects our capacity to reply. If you need urgent advice for someone you are working with, please look at the suggested alternative advice lines below or look for legal aid advice on this website. Unfortunately, due to capacity reasons, we are also not able to review documents as part of this service.
To request advice for professionals, please complete the form below.
Trafficking Action Compensation Group (TCAG)
The Trafficking Compensation Action Group aims to bring together practitioners who work on trafficking and modern slavery compensation claims, in order to share best practice, improve access to justice and provide each other with advice and support.
Led by ATLEU, we want to ensure that survivors of trafficking can seek compensation for their treatment and have access to quality legal advice in order to do so.
TCAG meetings are hosted by 7BR Chambers, whose barristers are regularly instructed in compensation matters brought by survivors of trafficking. The group meets quarterly.
To sign up, or for more information, please email tcag@atleu.org.uk
ATHUB: the anti trafficking information resource
ATHUB provides information and advice resources designed to help lawyers, advocates and support professionals when they are assisting survivors of trafficking and slavery.
You can find out more and register for free now at :
athub.org.uk.
Advice request form
If you are a professional seeking advice on behalf of a survivor, please complete this form.
We try to answer all advice requests, either by email or telephone, during the following times:
Immigration - Thursdays 11:00 - 13:00
Compensation - Thursdays 11:00 - 13:00
Housing and support - Thursdays 14:00 - 16:00
(fortnightly)
We will answer most immigration and NRM queries by telephone. Please provide a phone number in your Advice request form so a solicitor can reach you during the day.
If we receive a high volume of enquiries we may not be able to reply within the advice line times but will do our best to reply as soon as possible.
If you need urgent housing advice outside our advice line times, we suggest contacting these services:
To find a lawyer:
https://find-legal-advice.justice.gov.uk
https://www.lawcentres.org.uk/get-help
For housing and asylum support advice for professionals:
Shelter Housing Advice for Professionals
Asylum Support Appeals Project advises on asylum support and accommodation
For survivors of modern slavery to speak to someone directly:
If your client might be a victim of modern slavery and wants to find out what support they could get, they can call the Modern Slavery Helpline on 08000 121 700. This is free and open 24/7.
For women only for help about immigration problems, criminal law, family law, or sexual harassment at work, Rights of Women run several advice lines.
For housing issues, Shelter runs a direct access advice service.
For general immigration guidance if you are working with a survivor:
The Right to Remain toolkit.
