2023 EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS prize short list

Shanti Das

Care workers trapped in debt bondage, The Observer

Shanti Das is a reporter at the Observer. She previously worked as a reporter for The Sunday Times and prior to that was based in New York and Bristol for SWNS, the UK’s largest independent press agency. Her investigative series revealed modern slavery in the UK’s care sector, exposing how migrant workers hired as part of a government drive to plug staffing shortages are being systematically subjected to abuse and illegal recruitment practices.

Her shortlisted pieces are: