Modern Slavery Statement – 28th April 2024
Structure, Business and Supply Chain
Attest Digital Limited is a small IT consultancy business based in the U.K. The company was created in February 2020 and currently consists of three directors and no other employees. We are an IT Test and Assurance service provider working mostly within the Public Sector on central government programmes of work.
Our brand is part of our identity therefore we place great importance on it and our commitment to corporate social responsibility. Through transparency we believe we can assure the public and our customers that we are doing our best as an ethical corporate citizen. In that spirit, we have published our annual statement for slavery and human trafficking (this document), made in compliance with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, in which we explain how slavery and human trafficking can affect our business and the steps we are taking in the fight against it. This statement is intended to fulfil the requirement for a Modern Slavery Statement for further and future contracts on UK government supplier frameworks.
Attest Digital’s supply chain is limited. We are a service provider and do not produce or consume goods. Our current structure means that we do not have employees, other than the three founding directors, nor any suppliers. Our expectation is for our customers to hold their own Modern Slavery Assessment which, from time to time, we will request sight of.
Supplier Code of Conduct
As Attest Digital grows, we may consider contracting with suppliers and sub-suppliers. Slavery and human trafficking will be considered throughout our Supplier Code of Conduct around the following themes:
Relationships: Strengthening our supplier engagement process
Feedback: Establishing grievance mechanisms and channels for individual worker feedback
Knowledge: Improving our knowledge base by collecting relevant data and improving product traceability
Third party engagement: Building strategic alliances with independent social auditors, unions and NGOs
Measurable change: Developing verifiable KPIs to measure progress
Supplier collaboration: Encouraging suppliers to collaborate to address slavery and human trafficking issues
Incentivisation: Developing mechanisms to incentivise employees and suppliers to address slavery and human trafficking and improve labour standards
Accountability: Establishing a framework for organisation accountability to allow for raising issues, making suggestions, voicing grievances and reporting slavery and human trafficking
Whilst we recognise the importance of these themes, we consider Attest Digital to be immature as an organisation (no supply chain, no employees) to develop our policies further. This will be under constant review.
Due Diligence and Managing Risk
As Attest Digital grows, we will ensure our consideration of new contracts will be subject to due diligence checks in the form of ethical/compliance audits. These audits will assess compliance with sound Modern Slavery practices to put our own minds at rest that our customers are considering their own supply chains with the view of preventing slavery and human trafficking. Further due diligence checks will be put in place if and when Attest Digital have our own supply chain.
We will set out to manage the risk of any slavery and human trafficking in our customers’ supply chains by, from time to time, requesting sight of our customers’ and/or their suppliers’ Modern Slavery Statements.
Key Performance Indicators
In order to assess the effectiveness of our modern slavery measures, over the coming 12 months we will continue to review the following key performance indicators:
As we are a relative new business, we will review this statement in 12 months' time to ensure that it is still applicable and holds true.
Date of last review: 28th April 2024