Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

TThis Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is Civico Limited response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and relates to actions and activities for financial year 2021 – 2022.

Civico Limited is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations and that of our supply chain, in the products and delivery of our services. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values

Organisational structure

Civico Limited has a single business operation address: 2.09 iCentrum, Love Lane, Aston, Birmingham B7 4BB in United Kingdom.

We operate in the Local Government Audio Video Systems Integration and Conferencing sector. The nature of our supply chain is as follows:
Where Civico install our system directly, we do so with trained company employees. Where we deploy our system to AV System Integrators partners to install, we confirm their Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking statement for compliance and alignment with Civico.

Policies

We operate several internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner and include the following:
We make sure our staff and suppliers are aware of our modern slavery and human trafficking prevention policies and adhere to the same standards.
All of our employees are free to leave to find employment elsewhere.
Civico does not retain our employees’ passports.
If we are aware of or suspect illegal practices relating to modern slavery and human trafficking, we commit to report them to the police.

Due Diligence

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains, we have adopted the following due diligence procedures:

Identify and action potential risks in our business and supply chains.
Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chain.
Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains.

Risk and compliance

We have and regularly evaluated the nature and extent of our exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and our supply chain. As a result:

We consider that we operate in a low-risk environment because we operate in a single open plan office environment.
Civico publishes a living wage minimum policy in its staff handbook provided to all employees every 12 months.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. When there is evidence of a failure to comply with our policies and procedures of any of our suppliers, we will:

Effectiveness

We use Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to measure our effectiveness and ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in our business and supply chains.

Name: Daniel Cremin

Position: Company CEO & Appointed Health and Safety Advisor