In accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015, this statement outlines the steps taken by Court Lodge Ltd to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking throughout our business and supply chains. Court Lodge Ltd is committed to ensuring modern slavery does not exist in its organisation or supply chains. We constantly strive to develop, policy and procedures to manage the way we obtain our goods and services to keep our supply chains robust. To date we have had no reports of modern slavery within our organisation nor our supply chains.

For small sized business such as Court Lodge Ltd, awareness is the key to ensuring that this policy reflects the standards and ethical considerations we apply to our supply chain.

We have in place:

• Due diligence checks to identify and assess potential risk areas such as agency staffing
• The monitoring of potential risks in our supply chains by checking our supplier’s commitment to Modern Slavery prevention. We have a long-standing relationship with our supply base.
• A robust recruitment and selection process to mitigate the risks of Modern Slavery entering our workforce. Court Lodge Ltd checks that staff can demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK and requires all contractors and agency staff to undergo an eligibility check before commencing work with us.
• A comprehensive training programme that maintains awareness across the workforce.
• We consistently review and revise our safeguarding instruction, procedures and framework to ensure we recognise, report and respond to all concerns or incidents of safeguarding. We are committed to keeping all our customers and staff safe from harm and abuse, this includes adults at risk, children and anyone who comes into contact with our company.
• Court Lodge Ltd has a clear framework of rules and behaviours and encourages the reporting of any concerns or breaches so that they can be dealt with appropriately in accordance with our policies and procedures.
• A robust quality assurance management system that allows for close monitoring of service delivery, customer and staff care across the company.