Q4

Report Date

August 2020

Key activities for this area in quarter 4 included: 

• Supervision of a work based placement student researching modern slavery grievance mechanisms and access to remedy. 
• Meetings with several members of the modern slavery working group (in lieu of a planned meeting in April, which was cancelled due to Covid).
• Benchmarking the University's Modern Slavery Statement against the Ethical Trading Initiative Evaluation Framework, leading to recommendations (e.g. specifying a senior manager with modern slavery responsibilities and the creation of a University Modern Slavery Policy).
• Scheduling of a meeting between SRS, Procurement and Slave Free Alliance to discuss membership benefits and a possible training workshop.
• Updated the modern slavery training text (still to be updated online).
• Recruited a new academic member of the Modern Slavery Working Group and provided a letter of support for her modern slavery research funding bid.