STPO and STRO summary timeline

By RChloBrown

  • STPOs and STROs introduced

    The Draft Modern Slavery Bill introduces STPOs and STROs

  • STPOs and STROs ECHR compliant

    The Home Office declares STPOs and STROs to be compliant with the ECHR

  • Committee suggests legislative revisions

    Joint Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill produces legislative revisions, with particular concerns raised on STROs

  • Second reading of the Modern Slavery Bill

    Second reading of the Modern Slavery Bill in the House of Lords draws criticism of STPOs and STROs

  • Questions on standard of proof

    The Human Rights Joint Committee raises issues in relation to the standard of proof for STPOs and STROs

  • First Statutory Guidance issued

    First Statutory Guidance on Risk and Prevention Orders issued under section 33 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. STPOs and STROs available to the courts.

  • Royal Assent of Modern Slavery Act

    The Modern Slavery Act—including provisions for STPOs and STROs—receives royal assent

  • First sexual exploitation STPO issued

    Family trafficked two Hungarian women to force them into sex work

  • First labour exploitation STPO issued

    A pair of Lithuanian nationals transported two male twins for the purposes of forced labour in food factories.

  • Haughey Review published

    The Modern Slavery Act Review is published, highlighting low uptake of STPOs and STROs

  • Statutory Guidance updated

    Statutory Guidance on Risk and Prevention Orders updated

  • HMICFRS report: ‘Stolen Freedom: The Policing Response

    Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services publish ‘Stolen Freedom: The Policing Response to Modern Slavery And Human Trafficking’

  • Crown Prosecution Service report

    Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) publishes a report reviewing CPS response to Modern Slavery Act, recommending increased use of STPOs and STROs as part of overall case strategy.

  • Legal first: County lines network duo jailed

    Mahad Yusuf and Fesal Mahamud are jailed - the first in UK legal history in which police successfully used powers under the Modern Slavery Act to target members of a city gang supplying class A drugs into county or coastal locations.

  • Home Office report (2020)

    The Home Office’s 2020 UK annual report on modern slavery identified that 147 STPOs and 60 STROs were issued in England and Wales between July 2015 and March 2020.

  • Shaun Sawyer updates Police National Computer

    Shaun Sawyer QPM, Chief Constable and the National Police lead for Modern Slavery instructs all UK forces to start recording data on STPOs and STROs on the Police National Computer (PNC)

  • Shaun Sawyer writes to the Home Office

    Shaun Sawyer QPM, Chief Constable and National Police lead for Modern Slavery, writes to the Home Office to propose amendments be made regarding STPOs/STROs.

  • Independent review of the Modern Slavery Act: final report

    Reviewers stated that they had not been asked to consider Risk Orders for the review, but believed improvements necessary to enhance the uptake and effectiveness of Risk Orders.

  • First jail term issued for STRO breach

    Kofie Welch becomed the first person to be jailed for flouting a slavery and trafficking risk order due to County Lines activity

  • Report: Use of Modern Slavery Risk and Prevention Orders

    Detective Inspector Tim Evans (Law Enforcement Policy Lead for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner), produces a report for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, making specific recommendations on STPOs/STROs.

  • Nepalese recruitment agency issued STRO

    A Nepalese recruitment agency loses its Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) licence after investigations reveal workers were charged exorbitant job-finding fees before arriving in the UK.