Drake & Morgan is committed to driving out acts of modern-day slavery and human trafficking within its business and that from within its supply chains, including sub-contractors, and partners.
Drake & Morgan acknowledges responsibility to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and will ensure transparency within the organisation and with suppliers of goods and services to the organisation. These as well as the suppliers of services make up the supply chain within the organisation.
As part of Drake & Morgan’s due diligence processes into slavery and human trafficking the supplier approval process will incorporate a review of the controls undertaken by the supplier. Imported goods from sources from outside the UK and EU are potentially more at risk for slavery/human trafficking issues. The level of management control required for these sources will be continually monitored.
Drake & Morgan will not support or deal with any business knowingly involved in slavery or human trafficking.
The CEO and senior management take responsibility for implementing this policy statement and its objectives and shall provide adequate resources (training, etc) and investment to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place within the organisation and within its supply chains.
Modern slavery is a complex and multi-faceted crime and tackling it requires all of us to play a part. At first glance, you may think this whole subject is irrelevant to us, but it’s not. At a very basic level, of course preventing exploitation and human trafficking, and protecting our workforce and reputation makes good business sense. The MSA 2015 recognises the important part businesses can and should play in tackling slavery and encourages them to do more. With this in mind, we need to pay particularly close attention to our supply chain, any outsourced activities, particularly to jurisdictions that may not have adequate safeguards, cleaning and catering suppliers & corporate hospitality.
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure that all those in our supply chains comply with our values we are putting in place a supply chain compliance programme that will require our suppliers to confirm that they have a slavery and human trafficking policy in place and that they require the same from their suppliers.
The principal areas of risk we face, related to slavery and human trafficking, include the employment of subcontractors and suppliers where their work practices may be non-compliant such as: The use of agency workers and contractors for labour intensive activities; Subcontractor packages with high labour content; Subcontractors engaged at low rates of pay; Purchasing of materials at low prices. We manage these risk areas through our procedures set out in this policy and elsewhere.
We have a clear statement that we take our responsibilities to our employees, people working within our supply chain and our clients seriously.
We make this statement as part of our company reporting and have aa legal duty to publish this statement on our website. The policies we have in place and this anti-slavery statement, reflect our commitment to:
The Company acknowledges responsibility to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and will ensure transparency within the organisation and with suppliers of goods and services to the organisation.
We have a whistleblowing policy in place and, as part of our efforts to identify and mitigate risks within our supply chain, we are introducing systems to identify, assess and monitor potential risk areas.
We are an independent multi-disciplinary hospitality company currently operating solely within the UK. Our business currently compromises of 18 locations.
As a business, we are committed to act ethically, being honest and open in our business relationships and to implement effective systems and procedures to, as far as possible, ensure that slavery and human trafficking does not take pace anywhere in the business our supply chain.
This policy sets out the key risk areas we face and our approach to avoiding and preventing modern slavery.
Our recruitment process follows firm policy and only uses agreed specified reputable recruitment agencies. To ensure the potential for slavery and human trafficking is reduced as far as possible, we will check recruitment agencies before adding them to our list of approved agencies. This includes: conducting background checks, investigating reputation, ensuring the staff, it provides have the appropriate paperwork (e.g. work visas), ensuring the agency provides assurances that the appropriate checks have been made on the person they are supplying. We keep agents on the list under regular review, at least every two years.
We always ensure all staff have a written contract of employment/engagement and that they have not had to pay any direct or indirect fees to obtain work. We always ensure staff are legally able to work in the UK. We check the names and addresses of our staff (a number of people listing the same address may indicate high shared occupancy, often a factor for those being exploited). We provide information to all new recruits on their statutory rights including sick pay, holiday pay and any other benefits they may be entitled to. If, through our recruitment process, we suspect someone is being exploited, the Company will follow our reporting procedures (See Reporting slavery).
Talking to someone about your concerns may stop someone else from being exploited or abused. If you think that someone is in immediate danger, dial 999.
Otherwise, you should discuss your concerns with the CEO, who will decide a course of action and provide any further advice.
Not all victims may want to be helped and there may be instances where reporting a suspected trafficking case puts the potential victim at risk, so it is important that in the absence of an immediate danger, you discuss your concerns first with the CEO, before taking any further action.
We provide training to those staff members who are involved in managing recruitment and our supply chains.
More general awareness training is provided to all staff through formal training sessions online. https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/toolkits/hta/
We will review our Anti-slavery policy every two years. We will provide information and/or training on any changes we make.