Staff Solutions UK Ltd is committed to eliminating modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and similar human rights abuses.  

 

Staff Solutions UK Ltd is committed to ensuring that its staff and any workers it supplies (directly or indirectly) are not subject to behaviour or threats that may amount to modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and similar human rights abuses.  

 

Staff Solutions UK Ltd provides appropriate training and awareness information for all of its staff. 
In particular: 

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• All of our staff receive awareness-raising information around issues involving modern slavery and human trafficking, so that they can bring any concerns they have to the attention of management.

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Any staff member, worker or other parties are strongly encouraged to report any concerns or suspicions that they might have to Claire Dawson - Director. 

 

Reports surrounding these issues are taken extremely seriously by our board of directors who are committed to ensuring that all investigations shall be prompt and effective. If our investigations reveal any issues, we are committed to taking appropriate action, including but not limited to:

 

• Working with the appropriate organisations to improve standards

• Removing that organisation from our preferred supplier list,

• Passing details to appropriate law enforcement bodies.

 

We regularly monitor our risks in this area through the use of relevant key performance indicators, including:

 

The percentage of suppliers who sign up to an appropriate code/provide their own modern slavery statements. 

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• The effectiveness of enforcement against supplies who breach policies

• The amount of time spent on audits, re-audits, spot checks and related due diligence

• The level of modern slavery training and awareness amongst staff

 

As part of our efforts in this area, we publish a modern slavery statement on an annual basis. 

 

We would also recommend reading this in conjunction with our other policies, including our:

 

• Corporate social responsibility policy,

• Ethical procurement policy,

• Anti-bribery / corruption policy, and

• Whistle-blowing policy.

 

This policy was adopted on 1st January 2016 after being agreed by the Business Director.  It is reviewed annually.  

This statement is made as part of Staff Solutions UK Ltd’s commitment to eliminating the exploitation of people under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the Act).  It summarises how Staff Solutions UK Ltd operates, the policies and processes in place to minimise the possibility of any problems, any risks we have identified and how we monitor them, and how we train our staff.  

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This statement is published in accordance with section 54 of the Act and relates to the financial year April 2023 to April 2024. It was approved by the director on 29th March 2023.

 

Claire Dawson, Director, our business Staff Solutions UK Ltd is a limited company operating in the recruitment sector. We supply temporary workers / act as a neutral vendor / and act as a master vendor] in the Transport & Logistics sectors.

 

Staff Solutions UK Ltd is an independent business. All of the hirers that we work with, and all of the work-seekers we provide, are known to and identified by our staff.  All of the temporary workers we supply are identified by our staff. Some of these work-seekers operate through their own limited companies.  Some of our work-seekers are supplied via other businesses, who facilitate providing them to the eventual hiring company.

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As a “master vendor”, we work with other businesses to supply workers to hiring companies.  We hire some of the workers directly, who are directly recruited by our staff.  Other workers are hired directly by other businesses. Some of these workers operate through their own limited companies. We facilitate supplying a mix of these workers to the hiring companies.

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The hiring companies that we work with are located in Essex, Herts & London.  The workers we supply live in these areas.

 

Other relationships

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• As part of our business, we also work with the following organisations:

• Gang masters Licencing Authority

• the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (www.rec.uk.com) 

• Our Policies

• In addition, Staff Solutions UK Ltd has the following policies which incorporate ethical standards for our staff:

• GDPR

• Drugs & Alcohol

• Child Labour

• Disciplinary, dismissal & grievance 

• AWR – Agency Worker Regulations

 

Policy development and review

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Staff Solutions UK Ltd ’s policies are established by our directors, based on advice from HR professionals, industry best practice and legal advice. We review our policies on a regular basis, or as needed to adapt to changes.  Our Processes for Managing Risk

In order to assess the risk of modern slavery, we use the following processes with our suppliers:

 

• When engaging with suppliers, we ask for evidence of their processes and policies, including commitments around modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, human rights, and whistle-blowing.

• We conduct audits before entering into a commercial relationship with any business where there is the potential for risk.  These audited businesses form the basis of our preferred supplier list.

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We review the potential for risk at regular intervals, including the possibility of re-auditing a supplier or conducting spot checks.

 

After due consideration, we have not identified any significant risks of modern slavery, forced labour, or human trafficking in our supply chain. However, we continue to be alert to the potential for problems.  

 

Additionally, we have taken the following steps to minimise the possibility of any problems:

 

• We reserve the right to conduct spot-checks of the businesses who supply us, in order to investigate any complaints.

• We require the businesses we work with to address modern slavery concerns in their policies.

• We collaborate with our suppliers in order to improve standards and transparency across our supply chain.

• Only senior members of staff who have undergone appropriate training for assessing modern slavery risks in the supply chain are authorised to sign contracts and establish commercial relationships in any area where we have identified the potential for risk.

• We ensure that all of our suppliers are members of appropriate industry bodies and working groups.

• We work with the Gang masters Licensing Authority in order to combat the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking.

• Our staff are encouraged to bring any concerns they have to the attention of management.

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Our Performance:

 

• Based on the potential risks we have identified, we have also established the following key performance indicators, which are regularly assessed by our board of directors:

• the percentage of suppliers who sign up to an appropriate code / provide their own modern slavery statements

• the percentage of workers and/or candidates supplied from audited businesses

• the effectiveness of enforcement against suppliers who breach policies

• the amount of time spent on audits, re-audits, spot checks, and related due diligence

• the level of modern slavery training and awareness amongst our staff

• We benchmark our indicators against industry best-practice, in order to ensure that we do not put undue pressure on our suppliers that might increase the potential for risk. 

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Our Training

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• All of our staff receive training and support that is appropriate to their role.  In particular:

• All of our staff receive awareness-raising information around issues involving modern slavery and human trafficking, so that they can bring any concerns they have to the attention of management.

• As part of this, our staff are encouraged to discuss any concerns that they have.  

• Training is refreshed regularly.