Verify Your Supply Chain for Modern Slavery
Modern Slavery is a term used to covers slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking. All of these offences occur when one person deprives another person of their liberty, exploiting them for personal or commercial gain.
As a business owner, its common practice for you to undertake detailed due diligence of suppliers to ensure that they are complying with The Modern Slavery Act 2015 – enabling above all – not in breach of any of the above definition.
Inefficiencies in your checks can cause delays in recruitment processes, financial loss and unnecessary risk to your business. Integrating Credas ID verification software will provide complete confidence that the labour used in your supply chain.
Credas’ award-winning facial recognition software allows your business to run ID checks in real-time and a matter of seconds, enabling you to verify and confirm that the ID matches the actual person – enabling you to comply with modern slavery act regulatory checks and recruit new employees with confidence.
Our document storage ensures your business creates a modern-day slavery audit trail that assures you are compliant with regulators, and that your employees’ strictly confidential information is safe and secure.
Core features
Features
- Verify anytime, anywhere with the user-friendly Credas portal and mobile app
- Up to 97.7% accuracy with our facial recognition software, and 100% NFC chip reading.
- All data stored in the EU – Microsoft Azure Cloud – a globally recognised, secure and trusted platform
- Simple, seamless integration with your existing CRM and onboarding processes
- Save hundreds of weekly staff hours and their associated costs
How can Credas help you?
- Credas helps clients perform Modern Slavery checks in real-time using cutting-edge facial recognition – reducing the complex, time-consuming, resource-intensive and often, expensive processes.
- By working with a wide range of leading commercial data suppliers, Credas offers comprehensive checks on individuals, companies, and verify over 4,000 types of identity documents.
- Credas enables firms to manage the complexity of onboarding and monitoring customers and employees while ensuring our clients meet the highest compliance obligations.
- Multiple data sources mean we offer industry-leading accuracy when it comes to Modern Slavery checks, more than any other solution available today.
A simple, slick and smart identity verification solution.
Modern Slavery FAQ’s
Frequently asked questions, answered
Who needs a Modern Slavery policy?
Under the UK Modern Slavery Act businesses over a certain size are required to release an annual statement outlining the measures your company is taking to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking.
What is the Modern Slavery Act?
Designed by the UK Parliament, the Modern Slavery Act is a consolidation of existing offences legislation that provides organisations with a new set of requirements in regards to the way they do business and manage their supply chain.
When was the Modern Slavery Act introduced?
The Modern Slavery Act came into force on 29 October 2015 as a way to introduce updated guidelines for businesses on how to report human trafficking and slavery.
Why was the Modern Slavery Act introduced?
There is a need for adequate legislation, to hold employers accountable for the legitimacy of their labour. Far from being a distant notion, modern slavery is a global issue that the Modern Slavery Act sets off to tackle.
Increasing accountability throughout the supply chain of organisations and protecting workers were the main aims of the Modern Slavery Act. As an added benefit, compliance with the Act is a way to inspire greater confidence amongst customers about the products and services you offer.
Where does the Modern Slavery act apply?
According to the guidelines provided by the government, each organisation in a group structure is required to comply with the legislation and produce a Modern Slavery policy that’s updated each year.
In addition to having a total turnover of £36,000,000 or over, you are required to comply with the Modern Slavery Act if you supply goods or services and carry out any part of your business in the UK, as a corporate body or a partnership organisation.
You should note that this could apply to not-for-profit and charity organisations who meet the above points, as the new rules don’t make distinctions based on the end purpose of the profits.
Modern Slavery in business policy
If your company falls under the Modern Slavery Act, you are required to produce an updated Modern Slavery policy each year, in which you highlight ‘the steps the organisation has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place’1 in your own business as well as any of your supply chains.
While there are no official guidelines of the format and contents of such policy set out by the Modern Slavery Act, the UK government advises that you include information on the structure of your organisation, your slavery and human trafficking due diligence processes and the training available to staff on the subject.
You should also emphasise any high-risk parts of your business and supply chains where modern slavery is most likely to occur, break down the steps you are taking to manage these areas and the performance indicators you use to measure how effective your organisation is in preventing slavery and human trafficking.