Social policy charity CARE has welcomed the announcement from the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith this week that the Government intends to introduce a law that will make it illegal to purchase sex from a victim of trafficking.

Current law makes it legal to purchase sex from any person so long as it is not in an ‘on-street context’, where prospective buyers are subject to kerb crawling laws.

Rachel Davies, Care’s Human Trafficking Officer said that the current law was “worrying given that research demonstrates that demand for paid sex in Britain is growing rapidly and trafficked women are increasingly been used to feed this demand”.

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