Anti Slavery and Human Trafficking

Policy

Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.

 

The Modern Slavery Act 2015, is supported by Erith Holdings Limited and all its subsidiaries, collectively referred to as the Erith Group. This policy will be reviewed annually to ensure compliance is maintained.

Policy Statement

 

During 2024/25, we will continue to monitor and record anti-slavery checks for all personnel working within our business at the point of induction, we will also seek to raise awareness through toolbox talks to our workforce on modern slavery.

To date we have engaged with labour supply agencies to assess their anti-slavery controls and ensure they align with both this policy and the Act. We will continue to assess standards via a pre-qualification questionnaire prior to being permitted onto our supply chain. We will
also review a sample of the supply chain to ensure that they have an active anti-slavery check in place.
 

Responsibility for the policy

 
The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it.
 
Management is responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and are given adequate and regular training on it and the issue of modern slavery in the supply chain.
 
The group compliance manager will ensure that the required modern slavery compliance is monitored as part of the ongoing business compliance scheme.