OUR WORK WITH
Collaborative Groups
Slave-Free Alliance facilitates collaborative industry groups to improve sector-wide resilience to modern slavery.
Utilities Against Slavery
Utilities Against Slavery, facilitated by Slave-Free Alliance, is a forum for energy, water and gas providers to collaborate to prevent and address modern slavery.
Utilities Against Slavery
Utilities Against Slavery is a forum for energy, water and gas providers to collaborate to prevent and address modern slavery.
Twenty utility organisations are members. Collectively, they employ more than 100,000 people with a supply chain spend in the region of £15bn. Their varied workforce carry out tasks ranging from complex engineering to more basic activities such as excavation and material distribution, so they are uniquely positioned to identify potential acts of modern slavery and take action.
Utilities Against Slavery is chaired by Gary Booth, formerly a Detective Chief Inspector with West Midlands Police. Gary has been involved in the rescue of more than 300 victims of modern slavery. He also led the Hope for Justice West Midlands Hub investigative team during the Operation Fort investigation, which brought down a major trafficking ring in the largest modern slavery prosecution in UK history.
Recent projects include:
- Developing and delivering training sessions in collaboration with Supply Chain Sustainability School to 500+ colleagues and suppliers.
- Creating a high quality pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) to be used across members’ various procurement platforms for effective due diligence.
- Developing a common approach to working with suppliers to support risk management.
- Supporting submissions to the UK Modern Slavery Statement Registry.
Utilities Against Slavery Annual Report
Read what we have accomplished so far
Shortlisted for Thomson Reuters’ Stop Slavery Collaboration Award 2022
Utilities Against Slavery Event Recordings
‘Collaborating to Mitigate the Risks of Modern Slavery’, held on 18th June 2023. Click below to watch.
Just some of the Utilities Against Slavery organisations
The Waste & Recycling Modern Slavery Working Group
The Waste & Recycling Modern Slavery Working Group raises awareness of modern slavery and develops solutions for mitigating the risks that the whole industry sector faces.
With its frequent use of temporary labour and the nature of its business operations, the waste and recycling sector is actively targeted by traffickers and is high-risk to modern slavery practices.
Between 2015 and 2017, of all the modern slavery victims helped by our parent organisation Hope for Justice, more than two-thirds of them had spent at least some time in exploitation at waste and recycling facilities.
To address these issues, the Working Group actively raises awareness of the risks of modern slavery via the #WasteSectorSaysZero to modern slavery campaign and other public-facing initiatives.
The Waste & Recycling Modern Slavery Working Group has 18 member businesses which span contracting, management, logistics, exporting of waste, textiles, paper, plastic, e-waste, metals and more.
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