About this speaker
Amber has been employed by the West Midlands Anti-Slavery Network since April 2019. Amber has set up a Big Lottery funded ‘place of safety’ for identified male survivors of modern slavery and will be working on developing a resource and information centre for survivors at any stage of recovery from modern slavery and identifying future opportunities for the network. Amber has recently been accepted onto a multi-agency assurance panel of independent professionals who have experience and expertise in working with victims of modern slavery will add an additional layer of scrutiny to all negative ‘conclusive grounds’ decisions across the UK.
Amber previously worked for a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) subcontractor of the Salvation Army in various roles from caseworker to accommodation manager. Amber has directly supported survivors of modern slavery to access their rights and entitlements under the Article 12 of The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking of Human Beings and the Salvation Army care contract for a number of years and developed and managed safe houses and their staff teams with an ambition for improving survivor support.
Amber is passionate about having a survivor focused approach to all that we do and working to improve the challenges that survivors face throughout the identification to recovery journey.
