The Home Office has today, Thursday 11 March, launched a
modern slavery statement registry online, to provide a
platform for organisations to share the positive steps they
have taken to tackle and prevent modern slavery.
The registry will enhance transparency and accessibility,
by bringing modern slavery statements together in one place
and will make it easier to find and compare them.
It will allow users such as consumers, investors and civil
society, to search for statements and scrutinise the action
organisations are taking to identify and address modern
slavery risks in their operations and supply chains.
The registry follows commitment from the government to
strengthen the reporting requirements under section 54 of
the Modern Slavery Act 2015, following the Transparency in
Supply Chains Consultation, and publication of the
world’s first Government Modern Slavery Statement in March
2020.
All organisations are strongly encouraged to submit their
most recently published statement on the registry to
demonstrate that they have reported.
If your organisation is required to produce a statement
under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act, in future it
will be mandatory for you to submit your statement to the
registry as part of the proposed changes to strengthen the
reporting requirements to the Act. These measures require
legislative change and will be introduced as soon as
parliamentary time allows.
To lead by example, the government has submitted the
Government Modern Slavery Statement on the registry today.
Learn more about the
registry and find out how to submit a statement.
