Legal

Introduction

This statement sets out TruStack Limited’s actions to understand all potential modem slavery  risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is no slavery or human trafficking in its own business and its supply chains. This statement relates  to actions and activities during the financial year 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

As part of the Information Technology industry, the organisation recognises that it has a  responsibility to take a robust approach to slavery and human trafficking.
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The organisation is absolutely committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its  corporate activities, and to ensuring that its supply chains are free from slavery and human  trafficking.

Organisational structure and supply chains

This statement covers the activities of TruStack Limited:

• We are an IT consultancy and professional services business and are an independent  company operating solely within the UK.
• Our business comprises a Head Office based in Cramlington and a branch office  located in Durham.
• Our supply chain is predominantly UK distribution or retail suppliers of IT hardware  and software. Some of our products are sourced directly from manufactures although  they are all top Tier IT companies such as Dell, Hewlett Packard and Nutanix as  examples.

Countries of operation and supply

The organisation currently operates in the following countries:
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• Our organisation operates solely within the UK.

Relevant policies

The organisation operates the following policies that describe its approach to the  identification of modern slavery risks and steps to be taken to prevent slavery and human  trafficking in its operations:
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• Whistleblowing policy – The organisation encourages all its workers, customers and  other business partners to report any concerns related to the direct activities, or the  supply chains of, the organisation. This includes any circumstances that may give rise
to an enhanced risk of slavery or human trafficking. The organisation’s  whistleblowing procedure is designed to make it easy for workers to make  disclosures, without fear of retaliation.
• Employee code of conduct – The organisation’s code makes clear to employees the  actions and behaviour expected of them when representing the organisation. The  organisation strives to maintain the highest standards of employee conduct and ethical  behaviour when operating at home or abroad and managing its supply chain.
• Supplier/Procurement code of conduct – The organisation is committed to ensuring  that its suppliers adhere to the highest standards of ethics. Suppliers are required to  demonstrate that they provide safe working conditions where necessary, treat workers  with dignity and respect, and act ethically and within the law in their use of labour.  The organisation works with suppliers to ensure that they meet the standards of the  code and improve their worker’s working conditions.
• Recruitment policy – The organisation uses only specified, reputable employment  agencies to source labour and always verifies the practices of any new agency it is  using before accepting workers from that agency. We recruit all our employees either  directly or through recruitment agencies who are members of the Recruitment and  Employment Confederation. We do not recruit from outside the UK or use agency  workers.

Due diligence

We consider ourselves to be a ‘low risk’ business regarding slavery and human trafficking.  However, we foster a culture that encourages the identification and reporting of any such  risks within our business.
The company does not use many distributors or vendors and these suppliers do not change  regularly. Whenever we take on new suppliers, we undertake due diligence to ensure that  they operate a zero-tolerance policy on modern slavery and human trafficking.

Training

We are providing appropriate training to ensure that relevant employees understand the risks  of modern slavery and human trafficking within our business and supply chains.

Board approval

This statement has been approved by the organisation’s board of directors, who will review  and update it annually.

Director: Paul Watson (01/04/2023)