Modern Slavery Policy & Human Trafficking Statement

The 4C Associates Limited group of companies including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“the Company”) is committed to eradicating modern slavery or human trafficking from its supply chains or in any part of its business and encourages that commitment from its suppliers and clients, and they, in turn, from their supply chains.

We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to taking reasonable steps to ensure slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in any business or organisation that has any business relationship with our Company.

It continues to be a priority for the Company to ensure that we trade ethically, source responsibly and work to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking throughout the Company and in its supply chain. This statement highlights the key activities we undertake to combat modern slavery in the Company and supply chain, including how we hold suppliers and clients to account in our contractual relationships with them in a bid to identify and prevent the risk of modern slavery.

We are a growing UK-based Company with an increasingly international footprint, and although our annual turnover falls below the threshold that mandates we publish a modern slavery and human trafficking statement, under section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we are voluntarily publishing our position and approach to modern slavery to signal our commitment.

Due Diligence Processes for Slavery & Human Trafficking

The Company takes a zero tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking. We expect all those in our supply chain and all contractors to comply with our values.

As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk, the Company has in place systems to encourage the reporting of concerns and the protection of whistle blowers and we would encourage anyone in the Company, be they employees, consultants or contractors, who has suspicions about a particular supplier or client to highlight those to the senior leadership team.

We favour using the most reputable supply chain providers and prefer to work with suppliers that are based in jurisdictions that are low-risk for modern slavery, wherever possible, and we expect these entities to have suitable anti-slavery and human trafficking policies and processes of the kind that we would observe.

Where we have had cause to provide services ourselves overseas in countries that could rightly or wrongly have a reputation for being modern slavery or human trafficking blackspots, we have engaged directly with individuals and companies on economically favourable terms to ensure that we know that these individuals are fairly remunerated. This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy notices on the other websites you visit.

Reporting Suspicions of Slavery

While the Company encourages best practice, it is conscious that its employees and contractors are the ones who may be closest to a particular client or supplier and knowledgeable about particular practices. With that in mind, you can report any suspicions of slavery either through the Company’s Ethics Policy or externally to the Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline using the following contact points:

• Modern slavery & exploitation helpline
• 08000 121 700

Signed by

Simon Terry
Chief Executive Officer