Organisation
This statement applies to AMC-IT Solutions Ltd. The information included in the statement refers to the financial year 2023-2024.
Organisational Structure
AMC-IT Solutions Ltd, registered in England and Wales, provides IT Hardware, Software and Consumables to schools and corporate customers.
The company is run by a Board of Directors.
Definitions
The Group considers that modern slavery encompasses:
- Human trafficking;
- Forced work, through mental or physical threat;
- Being owned or controlled by an employer through mental or physical abuse of the threat of abuse;
- Being dehumanised, treated as a commodity or being bought or sold as property;
- Being physically constrained or to have restrictions placed on freedom of movement.
Commitment
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd acknowledges its responsibilities in relation to tackling modern slavery and commits to complying with the provisions in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd understands that this requires an ongoing review of both its internal practices in relation to its labour force and, additionally, its supply chains.
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd does not enter into business with any other organisation, in the United Kingdom or abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to involve itself in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.
No labour provided to the AMC-IT Solutions Ltd in the pursuance of the provision of its own services is obtained by means of slavery or human trafficking. The Group strictly adheres to the minimum standards required in relation to its responsibilities under relevant employment legislation in the United Kingdom.
Supply Chain
In order to fulfil its activities, AMC-IT Solutions Ltd main supply chains include those related to the supply of IT goods from various suppliers in the both the United Kingdom and Europe. We understand that AMC-IT Solutions Ltd first-tier suppliers are intermediary traders and therefore have further contractual relationships with lower-tier suppliers.
Potential Exposure
In general, the AMC-IT Solutions Ltd considers its exposure to slavery/human trafficking to be relatively limited. Nonetheless, it has taken steps to ensure that such practices do not take place in its business nor the business of any organisation that supplies goods and/or services to it.
Steps
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd carries out due diligence processes in relation to ensuring slavery and/or human trafficking does not take place in its organisation or supply chains, including conducting a review of the controls of its suppliers.
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd has not, to its knowledge, conducted any business with another organisation which has been found to have involved itself with modern slavery.
Policies
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd has the following policies which further define its stance on modern slavery.
- Ethical Corporate Responsibility Policy.
Slavery Compliance Officer
The AMC-IT Solutions Ltd has a Slavery Compliance Officer, to whom all concerns regarding modern slavery should be addressed, and who will then undertake relevant action with regard to the AMC-IT Solutions Ltd obligations in this regard.
This statement is made in pursuance of Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2010 and will be reviewed for each financial year.