Built Environment Against Slavery Group

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.

2024/2025 Built Environment Against Slavery Group Update

To learn more about the group’s targets and objectives for 2024/2025, download the Business Plan below.

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2024/2025 Built Environment Against Slavery Group Update

Key deliverables for the Built Environment Against Slavery Group:

Update / refresh / review existing School resources
Develop new due diligence resources to support the built environment
Make modern slavery resources more accessible
Showcase best practice and strategic approaches to combatting slavery
Collaborate to drive impact

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.

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 Modern Slavery 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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A practical guide to

Addressing modern slavery and labour exploitation in the built environment

These resources will support your due diligence approach by helping you to prevent, identify, manage, mitigate and remediate modern slavery and labour exploitation risks, across your operations and supply chains.

These headings align with the key themes outlined in BS 25700 – Organisational Responses Modern Slavery.

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1. Policy

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The Modern Slavery Act

E-learning Module

Key points you need to know about the Act and how it affects your business.

Intermediate

15 minutes

Date/ Time	Location
7th May 2025, 9:30am – 11:30pm	Microsoft Teams
10th September 2025, 9:30am – 11:30pm	Microsoft Teams

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.

2024/2025 Built Environment Against Slavery Group Update

2024/2025 Built Environment Against Slavery Group Update

Key deliverables for the Built Environment Against Slavery Group:

Update / refresh / review existing School resources​

Develop new due diligence resources to support the built environment​

Make modern slavery resources more accessible

Showcase best practice and strategic approaches to combatting slavery​

Collaborate to drive impact

Group Outputs:

Key Modern Slavery Learning Pathways:

The Modern Slavery Act

Modern Slavery Statements, the Modern Slavery Registry and Policies: Webinar Recording

UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

ILO Guidelines For A Just Transition

PPN 02/23 guidance: Tackling modern slavery in government supply chains

Human rights due diligence framework

Supporting a Just Transition

Salient human rights issues

Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard: BES 6002

SA 8000

UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework

Beyond compliance in the renewable energy sector

Modern Slavery Statement Registry

Modern Slavery Act 2015 Legislation

Tackling modern slavery in UK service and infrastructure projects

Modern Slavery Assurance Guidance

EU: Due diligence to address the risk of forced labour

Managing Sustainability Risks in your Supply Chain with SSE

Brickmakers Quality Charter

GLAA – strategic assessment

Implications of the Modern Slavery Act

– Tackling Modern Slavery in Solar PV Supply Chains – Procurement & Due Diligence Webinar

Tackling Modern Slavery in Solar PV Supply Chains: Challenges, Drivers, and Practical Guidance

Tackling Modern Slavery Through Purchasing Practices

Construction and the Modern Slavery Act: Tackling Exploitation in the UK (CIOB)

Tackling modern slavery in UK service and infrastructure projects

A toolkit for organisations in construction and property

UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Enablers for Delivering Modern Slavery Due Diligence: Webinar Recording

Case Study: Sky Innovation Centre

Addressing modern slavery in long and complex supply chains

Operation Cardinas: Addressing exploitation risk in the construction sector

EU: Due diligence to address the risk of forced labour

Managing Sustainability Risks in your Supply Chain with SSE

Modern Slavery Benchmark Tool

Corporate human rights benchmark

Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard: BES 6002

Combatting forced labour: a handbook for employers and businesses

Modern Slavery Assurance Guidance

Supporting a Just Transition

The UK Government Modern Slavery Statement

UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework

Universal Human Rights Index Database

A Deep Dive into the Social Aspect of ESG – An SSE Perspective

A just transition explained

Beyond compliance in the renewable energy sector

Business and human rights resource centre

Enabling a just transition of the built environment

Human rights due diligence framework

ILO Guidelines For A Just Transition

Investor Guidance: Respecting Rights in Renewable Energy

PPN 02/23 guidance: Tackling modern slavery in government supply chains

SA 8000

A Practical Guide to Understanding Modern Slavery Risk in Supply Chains

Global Slavery Index Report

List of goods produced by child labour or forced labour

Operational Toolkit: Combatting Slavery in the Built Environment

Worker wellbeing in construction – Unseen’s findings and what you can do

GLAA – strategic assessment

Tackling Modern Slavery in Solar PV Supply Chains: Navigating Risk – Webinar Recording

Marshalls Modern Slavery Risk Analysis 2022

Case Study: Sky Innovation Centre

Design for freedom international guidance and toolkit

Slavery and Trafficking Risk Template

Managing Sustainability Risks in your Supply Chain with SSE

Corporate human rights benchmark

Combatting forced labour: a handbook for employers and businesses

Update / refresh / review existing School resources

Develop new due diligence resources to support the built environment

Showcase best practice and strategic approaches to combatting slavery