Register of slavery & human trafficking corporate statements released ...

Register of slavery & human trafficking corporate statements released to date to comply with UK Modern Slavery Act Summary of findings:  We have identified1 83 slavery and human trafficking statements. 75 appear to be statements made to comply with s54 of the Modern Slavery Act (the Act) (5 are initial or holding statements & 3 are made by organizations that are not required to comply with the Act).

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22 statements meet both legal requirements (signed by director or equivalent2 & have link from homepage – see section 54(6) & (7)).

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9 statements meet both legal requirements above and report on all 6 criteria which s54(4) of the Act says an organization may report on in its statement

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For each of these criteria the number of companies meeting them are the following: o 42 signed by company director or equivalent depending on type of organization (this requirement set out in s54(6) ensures senior level accountability, leadership and responsibility for modern slavery) o

42 have a link from the homepage of the company website (this requirement set out in s54(7) ensures greater public transparency by the company)

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19 reported on all 6 criteria suggested in s54(4): a) the organisation’s structure, its business and its supply chains; b) its policies in relation to slavery and human trafficking; c) its due diligence processes in relation to slavery and human trafficking in its business and supply chains; d) the parts of its business and supply chains where there is a risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place, and the steps it has taken to assess and manage that risk; e) its effectiveness in ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business or supply chains, measured against such performance indicators as it considers appropriate; f) the training about slavery and human trafficking available to its staff.

Statements were found using the first 50 pages of search results from a Google search of the phrase ‘slavery statement’ on 22 January 2016 & 29th February 2016. Section 54(6) requires statements to be approved by senior persons and signed by a director (or equivalent). The persons required to do this depends on the type of organisation. The vast majority of statements did not state explicitly whether they had been approved by a board or equivalent, nor does the legislation require this. 2

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Company

URL

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

ABInBev Adactus Housing Group* Addo Food Group Aircelle Alternative Futures Group Axaltacs Banner

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement

8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

Beale and Co Beeswift* Bidwells Bytes Technology Group Birmingham Airport Brook Street C.HAFNER Camira Care UK* Carter Jonas* CH & Co Catering Group* Charles Wilson Engineers Ltd. Cluttons Cranswick Crown Oil* D2L DAC Beachcroft LLP & DAC Beachcroft Claims Ltd (subsid)

25. 26. 27.

De Poel Doosan Babcock* Dunbia

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement from DAC Beachcroft LLP Statement from DAC Beachcroft Claims Ltd. Statement Statement Statement

28. 29. 30.

Education Development Trust EE EMC

Statement Statement Statement

Signed by director/member/partner as per s54(6) Initial statement No Yes Yes No No Part of Henry Boot PLC. Initial statement Not required to comply No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Link from homepage as per s54(7)

Reports on 6 criteria suggested in s54(5)

No Yes No Yes No

No No Yes No No

Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes

No Initial statement No

No

No

No

No

Yes Yes No

Yes No No

Yes No No

No

31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53.

54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

Company

URL

Link from homepage as per s54(7) Yes

Reports on 6 criteria suggested in s54(5)

Statement

Signed by director/member/partner as per s54(6) No

ENCORE PERSONNEL SERVICES Esri UK* euNetworks Finlays* Flextronics International Ford UK Freeths LLP Gleadell & Dunns Halfords Hapimag AG* Hexstone Homeserve Huntapac Imperial Tobacco Ingram Micro Insuletics* Intel International Flavours & Fragrances* Jigsaw KAEFER* KYOCERA Document Solutions* Lancashire Group* LUPC

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement

Yes No No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Yes No No No Yes No No No No No No No Yes No No Yes No

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement

No No Yes No

No Yes No Yes

Statement Statement

No Yes Yes Yes Not required to comply, as doesn’t meet turnover threshold. Yes Yes

McMullan & Sons Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc Minor, Weir & Willis Mölnlycke Health Care

Yes No

Yes No

Statement Statement

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

MSC Industrial Supply MTS Cleansing Services National Fostering Agency Group*

Statement Statement Statement

No Yes No

No No Yes

No No No

No

No

Company

URL

61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

Neilcott Nexen/CNOOC Office Team PCMS Group* Pendragon PLC

Statement Statement Statement Statement Policy

66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.

Premex* Pro-Force* PTSG Sabic Saint-Gobain Group* Seko

72. 73.

Single Resource* Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium* Spectris Stepnell Suma Wholefoods Tetenal* Tibbetts Group T&K Gallagher* Toro Vinci Construction WD Meats YHA*

74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83.

* Added subsequent to 22 Jan search

Link from homepage as per s54(7) No No Yes Yes

Reports on 6 criteria suggested in s54(5)

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement

Signed by director/member/partner as per s54(6) No Yes No No Policy published ahead of statement Yes Initial statement Yes No No No

Yes

No

No Yes Yes No

No Yes No No

Statement Statement

No Not required to comply

Yes

No

Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement Statement

Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No

Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes

No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No

No No No No No