CORE’s Short Guides on Modern Slavery Reporting

Under the Transparency in Supply Chain clause of the Modern Slavery Act, all companies with a turnover of more than £36m operating in the UK are required to publish an annual statement setting out what they have done to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains and operations.

CORE supported the introduction of this requirement and in 2016 published Beyond Compliance, a guide for business on reporting under the Act. This guidance has been well received by business, but to date, most published statements indicate that companies have a limited understanding of the requirements of the Act and of concepts such as human rights due diligence.

To help address this, CORE has worked with Anti-Slavery International, Unicef UK and Business and Human Rights Resource Centre to produce three shorter briefings for businesses to complement the comprehensive guidance, and a briefing for investors.

Recommended Content for a Modern Slavery Statement: This guidance provides information on the six reporting areas covered by the TISC clause; key content of a slavery and human trafficking statement; and expectations beyond a company’s first statement. DOWNLOAD

Engaging with Companies on Modern Slavery – A Briefing for Investors: This guidance document offers a rationale for investor engagement with companies on modern slavery and supply chain reporting, and suggests questions for investors to raise with companies that are required to report under the Act. DOWNLOAD

Tackling Modern Slavery through Human Rights Due Diligence: This guide explains the difference between human rights due diligence and audit, and provides advice to businesses on identifying risks in their supply chains. DOWNLOAD

Modern Slavery Reporting: Weak and Notable Practice - A selection of weak and notable reporting practice from statements published to date. A random sample of modern slavery statements are reviewed according to the information they provide on the six reporting areas suggested in the Act. DOWNLOAD

Beyond Compliance: Effective Reporting under the Modern Slavery Act

This document has been prepared by CORE, with contributions from Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, CAFOD, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), Know the Chain, Quakers in Britain, ShareAction, Traidcraft and Unicef UK, and is supported by ECPAT UK, Walk Free...

Production and Active Trading of Child Sexual Exploitation Images Depicting Identified Victims

Guidance

Research team: Michael C. Seto, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group; Cierra Buckman, Johns Hopkins University; R. Gregg Dwyer, Medical University of South Carolina; Ethel Quayle, University of Edinburgh. The primary objective in this project was to de...Read More

TAGS: Global

National Referral Mechanism on Identifying and Working with Potential Victims of Child Trafficking

GuidancePublications

Since its establishment in 2007, the Working Group on Child Trafficking as a sub-group of the Task Force on Combating Human Trafficking has been working to gather background information on the phenomenon of child trafficking in Austria through the e...Read More

TAGS: Training Europe

Responding to Modern Slavery and Exploitation within the Homelessness Sector

Guidance

Findings and Recommendations from the first year of The Passage’s Anti-Slavery Project. Written by Dr Júlia Tomás. The report looks at the experiences of homelessness organisations across England in working with victims of modern slavery who...Read More

TAGS: Assembly Training Europe

Combating Forced and Child Labor of Refugees in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Responsible Sourcing

GuidancePublications

With the global refugee crisis showing no signs of abating, multinational companies need to consider how their supply chain interacts with refugees, who are often more vulnerable to forced labor when they seek out work in a new country. Combating F...Read More

TAGS: Sourcing or Production Global