Home Office Guidance Modern Slavery Statement

The key question is whether the child is being exploited.

Home office guidance modern slavery statement. The statement sets out the government s efforts towards eradicating modern slavery from its supply chains including direct engagement with around 400 suppliers and delivering training to over. Uk government modern slavery statement published. How to identify and support victims to the section national referral. The uk home office has released an updated version of its guidance for companies on the content of statements published under the modern slavery act 2015.

Added statutory guidance on modern slavery. Slavery act 2015 requires certain organisations to develop a slavery and human trafficking statement each year. The guidance was initially published in 2015 when the bill first passed. If you register your details on the contacts database you will receive email updates every 6 weeks from the home office to help you develop and improve your modern slavery statement.

Initiative base code guidance. Now that organisations have gone through a first round of modern slavery statements and some have already published a second report the guidance has been revised to. The home office statutory guidance states that you should do this within 6 months of your organisation s financial year end. Indeed the guidance makes it clear that child labour will not always constitute modern slavery although the worst forms of child labour are very likely to constitute modern slavery.

The home office have published updated statutory guidance under section 49 1 of the modern slavery act 2015. The guidance provided here will assist companies understand stakeholders expectations of modern slavery statements under section 54. The msa does not actually refer directly to child labour as being in itself a form of modern slavery. This guidance will cover indicators that a person may be a victim of modern slavery the support available to potential victims and victims and the decision making process for determining if someone is a victim.

An effective informative and substantive statement will address and report on modern slavery in the context of a broader human rights due diligence context. Over the last month the uk home office has sent letters to more than 17 000 companies that it believes are required to publish an annual statement under the uk modern slavery act.