MODERN SLAVERY
CORE OUTCOME SET
The MSCOS model represents an interrelated set of core outcomes which operate together as the minimum required for the recovery, well-being and integration of adult survivors. The Model demonstrates that it is helpful to consider the set in a circular format rather than in a hierarchical list.
Trauma-informed services and Long-term, consistent support wrap around the other core outcomes and continue to head outwards together from the circular set. These are both considered vital to support long-term access to all outcomes needed by survivors.
Broad icons depict the core outcomes within the circular model to permit the widest possible interpretation in relation to: Secure and suitable housing; Safety from any trafficker or other abuser, Access to medical treatment, and Access to education.
Finding purpose in life and self-actualisation is depicted with coloured arrows travelling in a range of directions. This illustrates that finding purpose and self-actualisation is a key core outcome for survivors which is highly personal and specific to each individual person.
The full MSCOS research paper, The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set: A Survivor-Driven Consensus on Priority Outcomes for Recovery, Wellbeing, and Reintegration
Explore Each of the Core Outcomes
”The MSCOS is like the tower in a Jenga game: If you remove one outcome - one ‘block’, - the tower becomes unstable; remove another block and the tower can crash down”
- Keith Lewis, Survivor Leader and MSCOP RAB member
“There has not been enough collaborative work to ensure that when survivors of modern slavery come into the system, all the support is in place to empower them to become independent, personally stable, financially stable, with safe accommodation. Everyone has dreams of achievement, to make their way for themselves, for example, in training, vocational skills, business, but the system has gaps – it causes survivors to be stuck and there is no growth.
If a person has only one of the core outcomes – for example, education; how do you expect them to focus, to do their best, to be able to study and achieve if they don’t have the others, if they can’t live safely, be financially independent enough to afford their basic needs, if they don’t have the right mental health support. How do you expect them to grow and leave the system?
If the MSCOS is not in place a survivor may even be persuaded to return to their traffickers. It may sound strange, ‘why would a survivor who has gone through such a distressing situation with perpetrators consider going back to them?', but it happens because the system does not enable survivors to feel safe, to be protected and to have hope for their future.”
-Ruth Aguele, Survivor Leader and MSCOP RAB member