Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

This statement sets out Coppers Brook Group’s actions to understand all potential modern slavery risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in its own business and its supply chains. 

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This statement relates to actions and activities during the current financial year. Coppers Brook Group is committed to operating all of its business activities to the highest standards of business ethics and integrity. We are committed to understanding more about modern slavery and ensuring there is no modern slavery concerns in our business or supply chain. 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.

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We are committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking. In light of the obligation to report on measures to ensure that all parts of our business and supply chain are slavery free, we have put in place a designated Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy, to demonstrate 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. This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the
Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our company’s slavery and human trafficking

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Organisational structure and supply chains

Coppers Brook Group is a specialist management consultancy based in London.  We partner with leadership teams to operationalise change — aligning leaders, designing transformation, integrating culture and ways of working, and building the capability required to deliver and sustain new levels of performance. Our supply chain consists of freelance contractors based in the UK and internationally as
well as additional partner third-party companies to support fully integrated transformation programs. 

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Supply chain risks 

Coppers Brook Group’s suppliers are mostly based within the UK which has a developed culture of ethical business practice and strong labour regulation. We have therefore assessed the overall risk of the business contracting with organisations that engage in slavery or human trafficking as relatively low. However, we have recognised that a risk in our supply chain exists where the business contracts with suppliers based in international markets. 

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Acts to address risks 

We are taking all reasonable levels of assurance and are undertaking the following activities on an ongoing basis to assess and address these risks:  Conducting an internal risk assessment to identify which of the businesses suppliers are most likely to provide services in countries and/or sectors where modern forms of slavery are more likely to be prevalent;  Reviewing existing contractual arrangements and identifying ways these can be strengthened to further reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our businesses and supply chains; and Providing anti-slavery training to key staff in accordance with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015. 

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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 
• We are committed to provide training to staff to ensure a high level of
  understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply
  chains and our business
• We also require our business partners to ensure a high level of understanding of
  the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking is understood by all their
  employees.