Anti-Slavery Policy
Introduction
This statement sets out Maxwell Stephens Limited'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.
As part of Maxwell Stephens’ business operations, the organisation recognises that it has a responsibility to take a robust approach to slavery and human trafficking.
Maxwell Stephens is absolutely committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its corporate activities, and to ensuring that its supply chains are free from slavery and human trafficking.
Commitments
Maxwell Stephens are a company that expects everyone working with us or on our behalf to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery:
· We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in our organisation and our supply chains.
· The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our organisation or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or on our behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate or fail to report any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy.
· We are committed to engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery in our operations and supply chain.
· We take a risk based approach to our contracting processes and keep them under review. We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties. Using our risked based approach we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with our Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking.
· As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes we will consider whether circumstances warrant us carrying out audits of suppliers for their compliance with our Code of Conduct.
· If we find that other individuals or organisations working on our behalf have breached this policy we will ensure that we take appropriate action. This may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships
