Modern Slavery

Voluntary slavery and human trafficking statement

We are committed to improving our practices to combat modern slavery in our business by taking steps, as far as we are able, to ensure that our supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking. This statement sets out the steps we have taken in 2023 to understand potential modern slavery risks within our business structure and supply chain, as well as the steps taken to eradicate these risks.

About us

We are a private limited company. Our annual turnover is under £36 million. Although we are not required to make a modern slavery statement under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we are making this voluntary statement to show our commitment to ethical trading principles and to set out the steps we are taking to identify risks and tackle modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and in our supply chains.

Our supply chains mainly consist of service providers rather than the providers of goods.

Our commitment to ethical trading

We are committed to ethical trading principles and to acquiring goods and services without harm to others.

Due diligence and risk assessment

To help identify and monitor the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain we vet suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure that they are committed to ethical labour practices. We include anti-slavery and human tracking provisions in all our contracts with suppliers.

Effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking

We use the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how effective we have been at ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our business or supply chains:

• The percentage of suppliers and sub-contractors vetted for ethical labour practices.
• The number of inspections of direct suppliers and sub-contractors in our supply chains in the past year.
• The number of reported breaches in the past year.
• Percentage of staff receiving training on identifying and addressing the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains.