Forest Farm Peace Garden
Modern slavery and human trafficking statement
July 2020
This statement is made in accordance with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain. Forest Farm Peace Garden is committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking.
About the organisation
FFPG provides opportunities for rewarding and meaningful volunteering in the natural environment at our garden through our ecotherapy programme, buddy volunteer scheme, events and community days. We work with various partner organisations including mental health services, environment organisations, the Local Authority and community groups. Our supply chains include the purchasing of equipment and materials for the garden and office, administration and finance functions and office rental.
Our policies on slavery and human trafficking
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in any part of our organisation, the organisations that we work with or who supply to our organisation. In light of the obligation to report on measures to ensure that all parts of our organisation are slavery free, we have put in place a modern slavery and human trafficking policy. We have reviewed our workplace policies and procedures to assess their effectiveness in identifying and tackling modern slavery issues.
Our policy demonstrates our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.
Due diligence processes for slavery and human trafficking
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we have in place systems to:
Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains.
Protect whistle blowers.
Supplier adherence to our values
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values we have in place a supply chain compliance programme. We include clauses in supplier agreements requiring compliance with anti-slavery measures. We expect our suppliers to demonstrate compliance with anti-slavery measures by issue of anti-slavery statements on their websites, policies and/or procedures.
Compliance is monitored by the board of trustees.
Training
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our organisation, we shall offer training to our staff. All trustees have been briefed on the subject. We also expect our partners to provide comparable training to their staff, suppliers and providers.
Our effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking
We use the following key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how effective we have been to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our organisation or supply chains:
Annual review of all relevant organisational policies, ensuring compliance with the Act
Maintain robust immigration checks for all employees and contractors
Annual review of salaries to ensure minimum wage is adopted
Assess new suppliers to identify risk areas and identify whether additional due diligence is required.
Seek assurance from new suppliers that they comply with the Act, seeking annually thereafter
Review contracts and consider inclusion of obligations to comply with the Act
Further steps
Following a review of the effectiveness of the steps we have taken to ensure that here is no slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains we intend to take the following further steps to combat slavery and human trafficking:
Keep abreast of any information updated information and case law connected with the Act and further review policies and processes in order to remain compliant
Review, update and publish this statement annually
Date: July 2020