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Nearly 1,000 reports of potential human trafficking were made in the first five months of an app enabling hand car wash users to report concerns over workers.

The Safe Car Wash app was launched by the Church of England's anti-slavery arm, the Clewer Initiative, and the Catholic Church last year.

Users of the app have flagged up fearful workers, lack of protective clothing and workers living on site.

These are among the signs people might be working in conditions of slavery.

The Home Office estimates there are more than 10,000 victims of human slavery in the UK - people being forced to work for little or no pay in a variety of industries. One area where exploitation is thought to be widespread is hand car washes.

The National Crime Agency, which is supporting the app, said hand car washes were a high-risk business for exploitation, and the report into the results of the Church's mobile phone app gave a further insight into the problem.

Between June, when it was launched, and December 2,271 completed entries were made via the app. Organisers said in 41% of these cases - 930 entries - users were told, after responding to a number of questions, there was a likelihood of modern slavery at the hand car wash and advised to to call the Modern Slavery Helpline.

But only 18% of those people actually went on to make the call.

Of the app users who reported concerns:

48% commented workers didn't have access to protective clothing

80% said the car wash had a cash only policy

17% said workers looked fearful

The data collected by the app is anonymised and shared with the National Crime Agency and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, who are targeting modern slavery in the UK.

Three months of non-stop work for £300

"If it was busy it was non-stop work. No breaks from 8 o'clock in the morning until 6:30 in the evening," says Stefan, who came to the UK from Romania and ended up working outdoors, in all weathers, at a hand car wash in the North West of England.

Stefan is not his real name. He was rescued by anti-Slavery charity, the Medaille Trust after being exploited for months on end.

"The conditions were hard because there was no safety equipment. At the end of the day your hands were really damaged because of the chemicals and the soap."

He says he was bullied and told he would not be paid if he did a bad job.

"I work at this car wash for three months and at this car wash I got £300."

Bishop Alistair Redfern, who heads up the Clewer Initiative, said: "They recruit people who've got mental health issues, broken relationships, come from another culture where they don't trust the police, they may have immigration issues.

"The only signs are if we notice how somebody looks, their demeanour and then we can begin to push back.

"The police can't do that, the local authority can't and health and safety can't. The public can."

The app had a healthy take-up, with a flurry of reports coming in the first few weeks and almost 1,000 in the whole of June. Although the rate dropped off from that initial level, it still stabilised by about September at a rate of almost 200 alerts per month.

But the report into the scheme's first few months concludes only 18% of people followed advice to call the slavery hotline, which is triggered when users highlight enough signs of human trafficking.

Mick Duthie, a former senior detective with the Metropolitan Police now working with the Catholic Church's anti slavery unit, said that may change.

"I think it's a relatively new crime for people to understand," he said.

"People from a faith background want to do the right thing but may not have full confidence in what to actually do. So I think the app is great start."

Bishop Alastair Redfern agreed it was good that even this many people had called in their concerns.

"In our success-orientated world you might think why isn't it 80 or 90%? This is a time of great cultural change really, I think 18% in that culture is good.

"I think we need to build on it and say 'because I care for my brothers and sisters who may be suffering, I'll risk pressing the button'."

The Kent and East Sussex Serious Crime Directorate said it thought the app was a useful tool against the slavery trade.

It was able to identify three car washes it did not previously know about that showed potential signs of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Paul Elms, Head of Prevention for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, said he thought the app was superb because it gave the user the ability to make referrals directly, but kept them safe as they did not have to confront anyone.

He said the app pinpointing the location of each report was enabling authorities to get a detailed picture of the location of car washes across the country.

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Nearly 1,000 reports of potential human trafficking were made in the first five months of an app enabling hand car wash users to report concerns over workers. The Safe Car Wash app was launched by the Church of England's anti-slavery arm, the Clewer Initiative, and the Catholic Church last year.

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Slavery is not merely a historical relic. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Essentially, it refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.

In addition, more than 150 million children are subject to child labour, accounting for almost one in ten children around the world.

Facts and figures:

An estimated 40.3 million people are in modern slavery, including 24.9 in forced labour and 15.4 million in forced marriage.

There are 5.4 victims of modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the world.

1 in 4 victims of modern slavery are children.

Out of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million people in forced labour imposed by state authorities.

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by forced labour, accounting for 99% of victims in the commercial sex industry, and 58% in other sectors.

ILO has adopted a new legally binding Protocol designed to strengthen global efforts to eliminate forced labour, which entered into force in November 2016.

The 50 for Freedom campaign aims to persuade at least 50 countries to ratify the Forced Labour Protocol by the end of 2019.

Why do we mark International Days?

International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. The existence of international days predates the establishment of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them as a powerful advocacy tool. More information available here.

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Slavery is not merely a historical relic. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking.

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London Bridge attacker Usman Khan attended two counter-terrorism programmes that had not been fully tested to see if they were effective, BBC News has discovered.

Khan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, on Friday.

He had completed two rehabilitation schemes during the eight years he spent in prison and following his release.

The government says such programmes are kept "under constant review".

Three others were injured after Khan launched the attack at a prisoner rehabilitation event inside Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge.

Inquests into the deaths of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones will be opened and adjourned at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.

During his time in prison, Khan completed a course for people convicted of extremism offences and after his release went on a scheme to address the root causes of terrorism.

The first course Khan went on, the Healthy Identity Intervention Programme, was piloted from 2010 and is now the main rehabilitation scheme for prisoners convicted of offences linked to extremism.

Last year, the Ministry of Justice published the findings of research into the pilot project which found it was "viewed positively" by a sample of those who attended and ran the course.

However, the department has not completed any work to test whether the scheme prevents reoffending or successfully tackles extremist behaviour.

There has also been no evaluation of the impact of the Desistance and Disengagement Programme, which Khan took part in after his release last year.

Government officials pointed out that the schemes have not been operating for long enough for the results to be assessed, but a spokesperson said all offender behaviour programmes were kept under constant review.

The spokesperson said: "All our offender behaviour programmes are monitored, evaluated and kept under constant review to ensure that they are effective in reducing reoffending and protecting the public."

Experimental schemes

The Home Office "fact-sheet" on the Desistence and Disengagement programme contains eight pieces of "key information".

But it omits the really key bit - that the programme has never been evaluated. In other words, we do not know if it works.

The same is true of the Healthy Identity Interventions course. Although the Ministry of Justice conducted a "process evaluation", to check the pilot version was being run properly, we will not know for another two years if it is achieving results.

So, these schemes, like many other offender behaviour projects, are, in essence, experimental.

Some say the only way of knowing if they are any good is to try them out. Others argue the risks of doing that are too high, pointing to the once-flagship Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which was used for 25 years until research showed that it increased the likelihood of reoffending.

Rehabilitating convicted terrorists is as complex and challenging as it gets - but a little more openness and honesty is required about the methods that are being used.

'Anybody can manipulate'

A man who recently went through the same Desistence and Disengagement programme as Khan says the London Bridge attacker "shouldn't have been let out of prison".

The man - who asked to remain anonymous - was acquitted of terror charges but was required to wear an electronic tag.

Speaking to Sima Kotecha of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "I had a mentor who came to see me at least twice a week.

"As time went on the authorities saw a change within myself."

Asked why such mentoring worked for him but not for Khan, the man said: "I wanted to make a change.

"Other people may think that [terror] is the only route because they've been radicalised and that's all they know."

He added that "anybody can manipulate" when asked whether people could convince their mentors that they have moved away from extremism.

He said: "I don't know his character, but anybody can manipulate."

Khan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for public protection with a minimum jail term of eight years, having pleaded guilty to preparing terrorist acts.

He had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.

In 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.

Since his release from prison in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS tag.

Khan was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London on Friday.

He was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.

A porter at Fishmongers' Hall who tried to fight Khan, Lukasz, was stabbed by Khan and two women were also injured in the attack. They remain in a stable condition in hospital.

On Wednesday, City of London senior coroner Alison Hewitt will also open and adjourn an inquest into the death of Khan.

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London Bridge attacker Usman Khan attended two counter-terrorism programmes that had not been fully tested to see if they were effective, BBC News has discovered. Khan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, on Friday.

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World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2019 is held on July 30th 2019, and is an annual event. People trafficking and modern day slavery is a massive worldwide problem with very few countries immune to human trafficking, and the event by the United Nations is to raise awareness and increase prevention of that.

Thousands of men, women and children end up in the hands of traffickers every year, often through being tricked and mislead to believe that they are being taken to work that will make their family better off, or through force, kidnap, or even through very poor families selling children in order to survive. There are many ways that people get caught up in trafficking, but the result is the same, they lose their rights and identity and are used and abused, and it is a global problem, an industry not far behind drugs and arms in terms of profit for traffickers.

Trafficked people are forced to work, often doing hard labour or prostitution, for no reward, and usually have their identity and documents removed from them and are warned of terrible punishments if they escape, and often they are taken to unfamiliar countries where they don't know the language and have no way of getting help, some die and are never heard of again by their families and communities.

A global problem like trafficking needs a global solution, which is why the United Nations organise the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, to raise awareness encourage vigilance and gain support for prevention of human trafficking, and also why they have produced a protocol to punish human trafficking and are hoping to implement this globally, as well as an act to protect victims of trafficking.

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World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2019 is held on July 30th 2019, and is an annual event. People trafficking and modern day slavery is a massive worldwide problem with very few countries immune to human trafficking, and the event by the United Nations is to raise awareness and increase prevention of that.

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Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays causes most cases of melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer. To lower your skin cancer risk, protect your skin from the sun and avoid indoor tanning.
Summer is full of outdoor activities. You probably put sunscreen on yourself and your kids when you go to the pool or the beach. But do you know you should protect your skin with more than just sunscreen anytime you're outside?

Sun protection is important all year round, and it's best to use several different kinds. When you're working in the yard, watching a ballgame, or taking an afternoon walk, make sun safety an everyday habit so you can avoid getting a sunburn and lower your chance of getting skin cancer.

What's In Your Tote Bag?

Here's an easy tip to help make sure you and your family stay sun-safe. Get ready for summer with a tote bag full of different ways to protect your skin. Keep the tote bag handy so you can grab it whenever you head out for summer fun!
Some important things to pack-

A lightweight long-sleeved shirt or cover-up.

A hat with a wide brim that shades your face, head, ears, and neck.

Sunglasses that block both UVA and UVB rays.

Sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher and both UVA and UVB (broad spectrum) protection.

More Sun Safety Tips

Stay in the shade, especially during late morning through mid-afternoon.

Can't stay in the shade? Wear a long-sleeved shirt and pants to protect your skin.

Remember to reapply sunscreen at least every 2 hours and after swimming, sweating, or toweling off.

Fast Facts About Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and includes different types.

Unprotected skin can be damaged by the sun's UV rays in as little as 15 minutes.

Even if it's cool and cloudy, you still need protection. UV rays, not the temperature, do the damage.

Anyone can get skin cancer, but some things put you at higher risk.

The most common signs of skin cancer are changes on your skin, such as a new growth, a sore that doesn't heal, or a change in a mole.

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Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays causes most cases of melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer. To lower your skin cancer risk, protect your skin from the sun and avoid indoor tanning. Summer is full of outdoor activities. You probably put sunscreen on yourself and your kids when you go to the pool or the beach.

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BBC Two - Anna: The Woman Who Went to Fight ISIS

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Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.

He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.

The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.

In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".

LIVE: Boris Johnson to be UK's next prime minister

Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.

"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.

"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."

Mr Johnson thanked his predecessor, saying it had been "a privilege to serve in her cabinet". He was Mrs May's foreign secretary until resigning over Brexit.

The outgoing PM in turn congratulated her successor, promising him her "full support from the backbenches".

US President Donald Trump also tweeted his congratulations to Mr Johnson, adding: "He will be great!"

Almost 160,000 Conservative members were eligible to vote and turnout was 87.4%.

Mr Johnson's share of the vote - 66.4% - was slightly lower than that garnered by David Cameron in the 2005 Tory leadership election (67.6%).

Boris Johnson will become our next prime minister.

A sentence that might thrill you. A sentence that might horrify you. A sentence that 12 months ago even his most die-hard fans would have found hard to believe.

But it's not a sentence, unusually maybe for politics, that won't bother you either way.

Because whatever you think of Boris Johnson, he is a politician that is hard to ignore.

With a personality, and perhaps an ego, of a scale that few of his colleagues can match. This is the man who even as a child wanted to be "world king".

Now, he is the Tory king, and the Brexiteers are the court.
Read Laura's blog here
Jeremy Corbyn reacted to the news of Mr Johnson's victory by tweeting that he had "won the support of fewer than 100,000 unrepresentative Conservative Party members", but "hasn't won the support of our country".

"Johnson's no-deal Brexit would mean job cuts, higher prices in the shops, and risk our NHS being sold off to US corporations in a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump," the Labour leader continued.

"The people of our country should decide who becomes the prime minister in a general election," he added.

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon congratulated Mr Johnson, but said she had "profound concerns" about him becoming prime minister.

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One passage of the 16-page letter quotes Shamima Begum's sister, Renu Begum, who says the family has "suffered loss so many times".

She says the family lost "a niece and nephew we never met", referring to the first two children Shamima said she had in Syria.

Shamima told the BBC in February that both children had died.

She went on to have another child after being found in the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. The baby was less than three weeks old when he died of pneumonia, according to officials in the camp.

Renu Begum says: "When Shamima was found in al-Hol, we had hope that we could rebuild something of our family. Sajid Javid stole that from us."

The Home Office declined to comment on the letter.

But it said any decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are based on all available evidence and not taken lightly.

A spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said the case "did not meet the threshold for a serious case review".

Instead the council provided "in-depth support to the school, its staff, parents and pupils in order to investigate what had happened and stop others following in their footsteps".

Commander Clarke Jarrett, head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said: "Our focus was not to criminalise anyone, but to prevent tragedies and support the girls and their families. Our priority and focus from the moment the girls were reported missing was their safety and wellbeing."

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Great wall of china, great for everything can embed equality diversity as so many male soldiers, law, privacy, British values how we dont do this!

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Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing - and changing us.
This is a contributed op-ed post by Fullstack Academy co-founders David Yang and Nimit Maru.
While the United States is seeing more women in leadership positions within politics and even classic old-boys-industries like finance, the tech sector can't say the same. More startups than ever - 70 percent, to be exact - have absolutely no women on their boards of directors, and the same is true for their executive-level employees: More than half of all startups have entirely male executive teams.

And when we drill down to the computing sector - where are nested the kinds of jobs we train students for - the numbers are even more dire: The percentage of computing occupations held by women has declined sharply since the early 1990s, when it peaked at just over 35 percent of occupations held by women, despite the fact that slightly more than half of all college grads are women.

So what does this tell us? It tells us that our current efforts either aren't working or aren't being applied on a grand enough scale.

We need to start earlier.

We need to get everyone on board. "Diversity and inclusion," while incredibly important as an initiative, can't be viewed as merely that, a siloed initiative that happens in parallel with the same old ways of doing things or is overlaid at the end of projects to make sure everything looks kosher to outsiders. It has to be interwoven into an organization's protocols.

Adding more women in the tech industry will attract even more women to the industry.

Women, for example, have to feel comfortable being emotional in workplace conversations and not feel like they can't bring that part of themselves to the job just because men are taught to operate that way. The default way of conducting business can't be the "male" way. Minorities have to feel that microaggressions will be taken seriously and not written off as "sensitivities" or "overreactions." And companies have to go beyond "token" employees - because hiring only one woman or one person of color can be exhausting for that person and cause them to leave. It comes down to this: Companies can't work toward moving the needle on big issues and then gloss over the small things.

Those little, interpersonal things add up to company culture, no matter what the values on the website say, and it's precisely the day-to-day concerns that will drive women and people of color away, no matter how much energy a company puts into big-picture efforts.

We also need to come to a cultural understanding that the opposite of systematic disadvantage is systematic advantage. Though that seems obvious enough, initiatives like the Grace Hopper Program, which offer benefits exclusively to women, get a lot of pushback from men (and women, surprisingly enough) who see these policies as "sexist" and ultimately damaging to women, sending the message that women need a helping hand and undermining the idea of women as independent and just as strong as men. But the truth is that women do need at least one helping hand in light of the many hands that have held them down for so long. It's one thing to say that women aren't inherently less capable; of course they aren't. But it's essential to recognize that society has enforced handicaps, and women's inherent abilities aren't the only factors at play.

When women - who have likely found support in small, women-friendly communities like Girl Develop It, Women Who Code, Black Girls Code, etc. - join your organization, suddenly your pipeline includes those very targeted groups.

We've seen these same arguments against systematic advantage in the affirmative action context - that built-in preference of historically disadvantaged groups is somehow damaging to those groups. But you won't see those who argue against affirmative action or scholarships for minorities or deferred tuition for women also arguing against the tacit advantage that majority groups have had for centuries, if not millennia. And that's because the adage is true: When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Majority groups that have been unfairly advantaged for too long see any even minute reduction in that unfair advantage as an all-out attack.

We know that initiatives like the Grace Hopper Program's deferred-tuition model - where women train now and pay only once they find full-time, in-field employment - work. Take Leila Loezer, for example, a Grace Hopper grad originally from Brazil. She came to the U.S. in 2008, and after reading about our unique tuition model in the Women Who Code newsletter, completed our program and was ultimately hired by the New York Stock Exchange.

So it's on all of us, but especially organizations with a strong following, a wide reach and high-profile leadership, to articulate both the general need for and their specific support for systematic advantage as a tool to combat systematic disadvantage. In this way, we can scale up these efforts - because more women in the industry naturally begets more women in the industry, and the problem becomes exponentially easier to solve once you've begun to solve it.

Some 94 percent of Grace Hopper grads ultimately find full-time, in-field work, which means that every year, we're injecting hundreds of high-quality female engineers into the tech sector. But it also means that those female engineers will attract even more female engineers.

A study from 2016 revealed that 85 percent of jobs are filled via networking and referrals. When both your team and the industry are majority male, you can bet your referrals are going to be majority male. So the snake eats its tail and the problem proliferates.

But when women - who have likely found support in small, women-friendly communities like Girl Develop It, Women Who Code, Black Girls Code, etc. - join your organization, suddenly your pipeline includes those very targeted groups. And more importantly, when many of the women from those groups see your company as more friendly and more accessible - you already employ a woman they know - they suddenly have a chance at employment that they didn't have before.
is CEO and co-founder of is co-founder and CTO at Fullstack Academy This article originally appeared on Recode.net. , where he keeps the curriculum hyper-relevant by staying attuned to industry trends and the latest programming technologies. Maru has years of industry experience as a senior software engineer at Yahoo, and was also the co-founder of Bloomspot, a venture-backed startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase. Reach him . Fullstack Academy, a Y Combinator-backed coding education experience focused on student outcomes. Before Fullstack Academy, Yang built and managed NYC engineering teams for several years at companies like Gilt Groupe, RecycleBank and BrightWire Media. He previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft, IBM and Yahoo, and has always enjoyed mentoring and growing great engineers. Reach him .

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Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing - and changing us. This is a contributed op-ed post by Fullstack Academy co-founders David Yang and Nimit Maru. While the United States is seeing more women in leadership positions within politics and even classic old-boys-industries like finance, the tech sector can't say the same.

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