Tamara Barnett
Address: 1 Rushworth Street, Blackfriars Settlement, SE1 0RB, United Kingdom
Tel: 00447841618432
Specialist areas of work and services:
- Prostitution & Sex Slavery
Description:
Tamara is the Foundation's Project Leader, running key projects in London and also the European Parliamentary work.
Experience, Background and Services:
Tamara runs the Foundation’s London Project, which aims to provide a free service to support statutory authorities in the Capital to fulfil their new statutory duties around human trafficking and to better support victims. She also heads the Foundation’s European Parliamentary Project, working with European Parliaments on cross-border cooperation and creating structures to tackle modern day slavery.
She has previously worked in both Government and NGO sectors. As a lead adviser on policing and crime, while working in the Greater London Authority, she co-wrote ‘Silence on Violence’ – a report on sex work and sex trafficking - and ‘Shadow City’ – an in-depth investigation into less understood forms of human trafficking.
Following these projects, she was invited to attend the ACPO Working Group on Prostitution and also presented oral evidence to the Joint Committee on the Modern Slavery Bill.
Tamara has lobbied extensively for better policing around sex work and improving the response to human trafficking and, under the umbrella of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, wrote the pan-London protocols on handling cases involving sex workers and drafted their input for the national police protocols
Tamara has previously worked in Parliament; led a Research Unit at Policy Exchange; and was Operations Manager at Catch21, an NGO engaging teenagers in politics. She also volunteered as Production Coordinator for an interfaith Arab-Israeli theatre group, Conflict Relief.
Tamara studied Modern Languages (Russian) and Philosophy at Oxford University and completed a Masters, with distinction, in Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck.
