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:
- Revealed: Migrant care workers in Britain charged thousands in illegal recruitment fees
- Migrant care workers came to help the UK. Now they’re trapped in debt bondage
- Human traffickers ‘using UK universities as cover’
- MPs demand end to repayment clauses in contracts of overseas health workers
- Live-in care workers ‘have pay docked by agencies to cover accommodation’
- The nurses getting huge bills for quitting the NHS
