OPENING STATEMENT FROM BOARD AND DIRECTOR

Refugee Action Kingston is dedicated to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking from taking place within its business and supply chain and we place the same expectation on our suppliers.

POLICIES RELATING TO SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The following policies exist within our organisation which demonstrate our opposition to modern slavery:

Modern Day Slavery Policy.

We ensure our suppliers are aware of our policies and encourage them to adopt the same high standards.

DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES RELATING TO SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

As part of our efforts to monitor, manage and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring within our business or supply chains, we adopt the following due diligence procedures:

Selecting suppliers who have a modern slavery and human trafficking policy.

Carrying out regular audits to ensure that all our employees are paid at least the National Minimum Wage and have the right to work in the UK.

Our processes aim to:

• Identify, monitor and manage areas of potential risk in our business and supply chains

• Scrutinise any identified areas of risk within our business and supply chains

• Adopt a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking throughout the organisation and our supply chains

• Provide support and protection from detriment or disadvantage to any person who, in the public interest, raises genuine concerns amounting to a protected disclosure.

RISK AND COMPLIANCE

Our organisation regularly evaluates the nature and extent to which our business and our supply chains are exposed to the risk of modern slavery occurring. The following list of risk management activities and/or procedures demonstrates our commitment to compliance:

Risk register reviewed at Board meetings by trustees.

Human slavery and trafficking included in risk assessment.

We do not consider that we operate in high-risk sectors or locations because modern forms of slavery are not prevalent in the countries where we source goods.

Where we have identified a potential risk e.g. when a new supplier is utilised, we will check they have the appropriate policies in place to mitigate the risk.

We ensure our suppliers are aware of our policies and encourage them to adopt our high standards. We adopt a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking throughout the organisation which extends to our supply chains. Upon discovery of a breach of our policies relating to slavery and human trafficking we will terminate any relationship with the relevant supplier with immediate effect.

SUCCESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR PROCESSES

Below is a list of the performance indicators used by our organisation to measure how successful we have been in safeguarding against slavery and human trafficking in our business or supply chains:

• Policy is uploaded to our HR management tool with a read request.

Employees are regularly reminded to read the policy if they have not yet done so.

TRAINING

We ensure all employees are aware of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains. Detailed below are examples of the training programmes we have in place to enable our employees to identify and report any potential breaches of the organisation’s anti-slavery and human trafficking policies.

All new employees are required to familiarise themselves with the policy as part of our induction and advised to report any breaches to the operations manager.

FURTHER ACTIONS, APPROVAL AND ENDORSEMENT

Following our review of our actions this financial year to prevent slavery or human trafficking from occurring in our business or supply chains, we intend to take the following further steps to tackle slavery and human trafficking:

The policy will be circulated to all employees to remind them of their obligations on a yearly basis.

This statement is made in accordance with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes Refugee Action Kingston’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 2022.