Our Businesses provide accountancy, financial, legal and business support services in various sectors within the UK labour market. We have our head office in Warrington and the Brookson Group has over 4,500 employees. We primarily operate in the United Kingdom, with some overseas travel being undertaken as and when required.
Our supply chains include the below who operate and specialise in various sectors within the UK and have a requirement for skilled labour, services and/or personnel:
Our Modern Slavery Policy reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere within our business or supply chains.
We undertake comprehensive ‘Know Your Client’ checks on all new clients across our Businesses to ensure we are only engaging with reputable organisations.
We have in place processes and systems to:
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking and we are keen to ensure that all those in our supply chain comply with our ethics.
We have a dedicated Compliance Team, which consists of senior personnel from legal and accountancy businesses within the Group and this team will field any queries or comments from suppliers, customers, employees or regulators in relation to our approach to combatting slavery and human trafficking.
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we provide ongoing training to our staff. Training is also provided to all new employees to ensure they are aware of our stance on preventing slavery and human trafficking within the businesses and supply chains and how to identify if someone is being trafficked.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our Group’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial period ending 31 December 2023.
Approved by the board of directors on 30th September 2024.
Matthew Fryer
Managing Director UK&I