The Additional Referral Pathway (ARP) is a program designed to assist people who have experienced or are experiencing a form of modern slavery to understand their rights and connect them with support.
Modern slavery describes situations where someone controls you or takes away your freedom and ability to make choices about your life, to gain profit or benefit. Modern slavery includes trafficking in persons, debt bondage, deceptive recruitment, forced labour, forced marriage, organ trafficking, servitude, sexual servitude and slavery.
Signs that you may be experiencing modern slavery include:
- Being forced to work or provide services (in any type of job or industry) under threat or coercion, with little or no pay or under harsh conditions.
- Not having control over the work you do, the services you provide or when you can stop working.
- Not having control over other parts of your life, for example; when and where you can eat, sleep or rest, or if you can leave the place you are staying when you want to.
- Being forced to work to pay off a debt, but the terms of the debt are unclear or the work never ends.
- Being tricked or trapped into work where the nature of the job is not what you were told it would be.
- Being recruited or transported through force or deception, for the purpose of exploitation.
- Being pressured, forced or tricked into getting married against your will, or getting married when underage.
The Additional Referral Pathway can assess for indicators of modern slavery in a person’s experience, referring eligible victim survivors of modern slavery onto specialised supports or other supports based on the person’s needs.
