Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited training as Verachilly-Training is committed to understanding all potential modern slavery risks relating to its business and to ensuring the business and its supply chains are free of modern slavery and human trafficking.

As a market-leading training provider, we acknowledge our responsibility to take a robust approach to slavery and human trafficking and to comply with all principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We will not permit or condone any form of slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour or human trafficking.

We are committed to always behaving ethically and expect our subcontractors, suppliers and business partners to do likewise.

This statement explains Lifetime’s approach to this issue.

Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited is a market-leading UK based training provider who offer apprenticeship programmes and training courses across a range of business sectors.

We work across the following Sectors:

• Independent Social Work Practice and Supervision
• Health and Social Care Online Courses
• Independent Advocacy and Coaching
• Social Work Practice Education
• Supported Accommodation Quality Assurance

The scope of our business is within the United Kingdom only.

Given the nature of our supply chain, we do not deem any particular activities or countries in which we operate, as high risk concerning modern slavery.

OUR POLICIES

Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited is committed to ensuring there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in its supply chains or any part of our business. We operate the following policies that describe our approach to the identification of modern slavery risks and steps to be taken to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our operations: Anti Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility Policy, Employee Code of Conduct, Supplier Code of Conduct, Whistleblowing Policy.

OUR ORGANISATION

Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited are comfortable from our due diligence that there is no evidence of modern slavery or human trafficking in our organisation.

The organisation undertakes due diligence when considering taking on new suppliers, and regularly reviews its existing suppliers.

Should suppliers not meet our standards as set out in this policy and our code of conduct, we would consider invoking sanctions, including the termination of the business relationship.

We continue to review and advance our due diligence systems to identify further and mitigate any potential risks relating to Modern Slavery.

We have a robust policy and system in place to enable whistleblowing and to protect whistleblowers.

OUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Our Supplier Code of Conduct sets out the standards and principles to prevent modern slavery, and we expect all sub-contractors, suppliers and business partners to comply with these.

Our Suppliers must comply with all relevant laws and regulations, which includes all those relating to Human Rights and employee rights at work.

We hold our Supply Chain accountable for adhering to this code of conduct and should suppliers not meet our standards as set out in this policy and our code of conduct; we would consider invoking sanctions including the termination of the business relationship.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited is committed to being a responsible business to acting in a socially responsible manner. We seek to comply with all employment legislation. As part of this, we conduct a robust recruitment process to ensure all employees have the appropriate right to work in the UK.

TRAINING AND INFORMATION

The Anti-Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy is available to all managers and employees on the Company intranet system. New starters are required to read all Company Policies as part of their onboarding process. Where appropriate, employees will receive additional training (i.e. should they procure services on behalf of Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited).

All suppliers will provide such co-operation and information that Vera Chilly Consultancy Services reasonably requires to confirm compliance with our code of conduct, including, but not limited to:

• providing written confirmation as to compliance with Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited code of conduct, on request,
• allowing Vera Chilly to carry out (or commission others to carry out) compliance checks and audits.
• Vera Chilly Consultancy Services Limited will review its Anti-Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy each year.

This statement will is published on our Corporate External website if required by law.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

To review the effectiveness of this policy, we will monitor Key Performance indicators which may include:

• Records to confirm employees have a copy of our Anti-Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy
• Records to confirm suppliers have been issued with a copy of our Supplier Code of Conduct and confirmed compliance.
• Records to confirm all employees have the right to work in the UK
• Records of any actions taken to advance our identification and mitigation of risks relating to Modern Slavery
• Records of how we have managed any Whistleblowing Cases

This statement is in line with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.