Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/FH/17/037

Portfolio Holder: James Waters           Lead Officer: Karen Points

RESOLVED:

That the Modern Slavery and Anti-Trafficking Statement, as set out in Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/FH/17/037, be endorsed and approved.

(Report No: CAB/FH/17/037)

The Cabinet received this report which explained that the Modern Slavery Act 2015 was designed to tackle slavery in the UK and consolidated previous offences relating to trafficking and slavery.  Section 54 of the Act required commercial organisations, with a turnover of more than £36m, to publish an annual “Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement”.  Organisations were required to set out the steps they had taken to ensure that slavery was not taking place in any part of the business or supply chain.

Section 54 of the Act also required the Council to consider modern slavery as part of its Procurement Strategy, ensuring that contractors and third parties had policies in place and adhered to the law and their responsibilities.  In terms of best practice and with reference to Section 54, the West Suffolk Councils’ would publish a Statement of the steps it had taken to ensure that slavery and human trafficking was not taking place in any of its supply chains, or in any part of its business.  This proposed Statement was attached at Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/FH/17/037.

With the vote being unanimous, it was

RESOLVED:

That the Modern Slavery and Anti-Trafficking Statement, as set out in Appendix 1 to Report No: CAB/FH/17/037, be endorsed and approved.