Supporting our clients to prepare Modern Slavery Statements has highlighted the importance of engaging Executive Leadership Teams and Boards early and often. Ensuring the Board understands the type and scale of modern slavery risks, and how their organisation may cause, contribute to, or be directly linked to modern slavery is critical.

We’ve had a busy few months working with leading organisations across Australia to identify operational gaps and risks, develop action plans, deliver modern slavery and human rights engagement and awareness raising workshops, identify supply chain risks and prioritise procurement spend categories and suppliers. In this post we share a few initial insights from our work.