DST Contracting Ltd is a newly formed micro company based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The company has an annual turnover of less than £200k Although under The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015, we are not required legally to address and report on Modern Slavery our board of directors have taken the commercial decision to develop and publish a modern slavery act statement in the form of an annual report outlining the steps taken to combat human trafficking and modern slavery in the business and throughout its entire supply chain.

Our policies on slavery and human trafficking

We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Our Anti- 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 in our supply chains.

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 placed a duty on commercial organisations supplying goods and services and who operate within the United Kingdom, to ensure that their operations and supply chains are free from acts of modern slavery and human trafficking.

We have developed this policy to demonstrate our commitment to the prevention of Slavery and Human trafficking and we are updating our supplier code of conduct to reflect this.

We have set clear goals for this year and will be setting further 1-, 3-, and 5-year objectives based on current and potential risk as the company grows.

We are basing our objectives on the following themes.

 - Relationships – Strengthening our supplier onboarding and engagement process

 - Feedback – Strengthening and educating out mechanisms for individual worker feedback and whistleblowing policies

 - Knowledge – Improving our knowledge of employee and supplier issues by collecting relevant data and improving product       traceability

 - Third Party Engagement – Working with current and future auditors and building relationships with auditors and clients

 - Measuring Change – Developing KPI metrics to measure our progress

 - Collaboration – Working with suppliers to collaborate on slavery and human trafficking issues

 - Accountability – Establish a framework for organisation accountability to allow for raising issues, making suggestions,             voicing grievances and reporting slavery and human trafficking

Due Diligence

DST Contracting Ltd understand that our biggest risk of exposure to Modern Day Slavery and Human trafficking is with our supply chain. We ourselves have performed a Modern Slavery risk assessment and are comfortable that we present a low risk throughout our supply chain.

This means that we will incorporate into our due diligence, any appropriate measures to ensure that anyone we enter business with do not engage in acts that could fall within the definition of Modern Slavery and that we protect the reputation of ourselves and our clients as fair and reasonable employers. To do this we regularly, through our onboarding process, perform due diligence that our supply chain is performing their due diligence throughout their own supply chain.

Our supply chain all fall within the UK boarders and are considered low risk.

Key Performance Indicators

In order to assess the effectiveness of our modern-day slavery measures we will be reviewing the following key performance indicators.

 - Staff Training Levels

 - Any Slavery incidents reported within the supply chain

 - Right to work check discrepancies

 - Audits carried out on supply chain

 - On site

 - In office