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Built Environment Against Slavery Group

Collaborating to address modern slavery and labour exploitation across the built environment.

Supporting the sector to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate modern slavery risks and labour exploitation

Due to significant labour demand, a severe skills shortage, complex supply chains and the prevalence of indirect and self-employment, the built environment is a high-risk sector for modern slavery and wider exploitation. 

The Built Environment Against Slavery Group brings together senior procurement, supply chain and sustainability leads from major UK housebuilders, infrastructure clients, FM service providers, main contractors, suppliers and sub-contractors. It looks at opportunities to drive a common approach to combatting modern slavery and labour exploitation, through the upskilling of their own workforce and the wider supply chain. The group is the largest anti-slavery collaboration in the UK built environment. 

The Built Environment Against Slavery Group Leadership Group has agreed a set of priorities for 2026/27 that will help shape the School’s activity over the coming year. These priorities focus on responding to industry needs, engaging learners through The School, and driving collaboration across the built environment against slavery sector.

View the group’s priorities below.

Group Outputs:

Partners have developed a range of resources to support organisations with their modern slavery due diligence. These resources focus on key aspects of the due diligence process, helping organisations to identify, prevent, mitigate, and address risks of forced labour and other forms of exploitation within their operations and supply chains.

Supply Chain Mapping: Guidance
This guidance builds an understanding of and the business case for supply chain mapping including meeting regulation, compliance, customer and investor expectations and assessing supply chain risks such as modern slavery and climate resilience to support business continuity. It provides a step-by-step process for conducting supply chain mapping with accompanying tips, templates and examples of tools to support the process. It can be adopted by any organisation, any size, in any sector.
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Operational Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to empower individuals involved in site setup and management to effectively combat slavery and labour exploitation. It provides actionable, site-specific insights and recommendations from across the built environment sector, helping address these critical issues.
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A Practical Guide to Understanding Modern Slavery Risk in Supply Chains
The guidance provides insights, tools and guidance on the evolution of risk, risk indicators, the concept of leverage and prioritisation, examples of risk assessment methodologies and examples of category risk intelligence on steel, PPE, wind turbines, batteries, stone, subcontract labour and waste management.
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Supply Chain Mapping Protocol
This protocol is designed to help you understand what supply chain mapping (SCM) is, why we should be doing it, what the benefits are of doing it, and how to go about it.
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Procurement Guidance: Best Practice in Combatting Modern Slavery
Supply Chain Sustainability Procurement Guidance on how to embed best practice in your procurement when combatting modern slavery. This includes example PQQ questions and KPIs.
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Modern Slavery - Sustainability Short
Can you spot the signs? A film designed to support your employees in understanding the signs of modern slavery in today’s working environment. The film explains how any individual on site can help identify victims of this crime and provides details of where to go to get help.
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Modern Slavery E-learning
This 15 minute online module discusses the issue of Modern Slavery and the impacts it can have on your supply chain.
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The Modern Slavery Act 2015 E-learning
This 15 minute module discusses the key points you need to know about the Modern Slavery Act and how it affects your business.
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Responding to the Modern Slavery Act 2015
This 45 minute online module discusses the issue of Modern Slavery and responding to the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
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Supply Chain Mapping and Modern Slavery
This online module explores how supply chain mapping can help you with understanding your supply chain’s risks and opportunities.
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Key Learning Pathways:

Modern Slavery: An Introduction
This self-enrol learning pathway is designed to increase your understanding of modern slavery risks within your organisation and within your supply chain. It is the perfect place to start if you want to understand the principles of modern slavery and how you can use due diligence within your organisational processes to combat the risk of labour exploitation.
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Modern Slavery - Due Diligence
This self-enrol learning pathway contains resources designed to build on your basic knowledge of modern slavery and delve deeper in due diligence within organisations and supply chains. To achieve the badge for this learning path, you must complete each resource.
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Modern Slavery: Site Set-Up
This self-enrol learning path is designed to increase your understanding of modern slavery risks, to help your understanding in terms of spotting signs of victims of exploitation and outline what to do to set up construction sites to manage this issue.
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Meet the Team:

EJ and Millie are here to help Partners to get involved with the Built Environment Against Slavery Group. 

Emma-Jane (EJ) Allen
Group Manager
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Isabel Townend
Group Support
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Meeting Dates:

The dates for all Built Environment Against Slavery Group meetings have now been set for 2026/27. Please see below for further details and the notes from previous meetings.

6th May 2026 – 9:30am-11:30amMicrosoft Teams
8th September 2026 – 9:30am-11:30amMicrosoft Teams
9th December 2026 – 9:30am-11:30amMicrosoft Teams
10th February 2027 – 9:30am-11:30amMicrosoft Teams

Meeting Notes:

Download notes from any of the previous Built Environment Against Slavery Group meetings below.

Our Partners

The Built Environment Against Slavery Group brings together senior procurement, supply chain and sustainability leads from our School Partners listed below. The group collaborate through the School to drive a common approach to combatting modern slavery and labour exploitation, through the upskilling of their own workforce and the wider supply chain.