Modern Slavery Policy Statement

Next Gen Rooflights Ltd is a national construction business with operations solely based in the United Kingdom at present. Next Gen Rooflights value human rights and are committed to ensuring that all business is conducted according to ethical, professional, and legal standards in a fair, honest, and open manner. Next Gen Rooflights Ltd is committed to conducting its business and all its relationships based on integrity and honesty and has a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking within its business and its supply chain.

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (“MSA”) and applies to all Next Gen Rooflights Ltd operations and its supply chain. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as:

• slavery, servitude (coercing someone to provide services) and forced and compulsory
  labour.
• human trafficking (arranging or facilitating the travel or movement of a victim
  with a view to them being exploited).
• committing any offence with the intention to commit human trafficking.
• aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring any of the above offences, all of which have
  in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them
  for personal or commercial gain.

Next Gen are also committed to ensuring there is complete transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chain. Next Gen expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers, and other business partners. As part of our contracting processes, Next Gen include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude and Next Gen expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.

This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, Managers, operatives, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives, and business partners.

This policy does not form part of any employee’s contract of employment and Next Gen Rooflights Ltd may amend it at any time.

Responsibilities for the policy:

The Human Resources Department has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it.

The Operations Manager has primary and day-to-day responsibility for implementing this policy, monitoring its use and effectiveness, dealing with any queries about it, and auditing internal control systems and procedures to ensure they are effective in countering modern slavery.

Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and are given any required training.

Compliance with the Policy:

You must ensure that you read, understand, and comply with this policy.

The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our business or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or under our control. You are required to avoid any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy.

You must notify your manager OR the Human Resources Department as soon as possible if you believe or suspect that a conflict with this policy has occurred or may occur in the future.

You are encouraged to raise concerns about any issue of suspicion of modern slavery in any parts of our business or the supply chains of any supplier tier at the earliest possible stage.

If you believe or suspect a breach of this policy has occurred or that it may occur, you must notify your manager or report it in accordance with our Whistleblowing Policy as soon as possible.

If you are unsure about whether a particular act, the treatment of workers more generally, or their working conditions within any tier of our supply chain constitutes any of the various forms of modern slavery, raise it with your manager or the Human Resources Department.

Next Gen Rooflights Ltd aim to encourage openness and will support anyone who raises genuine concerns in good faith under this policy, even if they turn out to be mistaken. Next Gen are committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion that modern slavery of whatever form is or may be taking place in any part of our own business or in any part of our supply chain. If you believe that you have suffered any such treatment, you should inform your manager immediately.

Communication and Awareness of the Policy:

Training on this policy, and on the risk our business faces from modern slavery in its supply chain will be given where needed.

Our zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery must be communicated to all suppliers, contractors, and business partners at the outset of our business relationship with them and reinforced as appropriate thereafter.

Breaches of this Policy:

Any employee who breaches this policy will face disciplinary action, which could result in dismissal for misconduct or gross misconduct.

Next Gen Rooflights Ltd may terminate our relationship with other individuals and organisations working on our behalf if they breach this policy.

Eddie Wells, Director

Date: 21/05/2024
Review Date: 21/05/2025