This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Fleming Lettings and Developments UK Limited, trading as Fleming Lettings, (‘the Company’, ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’) is committed to continually improving our practices to prevent slavery and human trafficking violations with the Company, in its operations, supply chain, or products. We have a zero-tolerance policy towards slavery and require our supply chain, our staff, and any third-party representatives of the business to comply with our values.

This policy statement sets out the steps taken by the Company to identify areas of risk within the business and any steps taken to eliminate or reduce such risks.

There are three government approved schemes in England and Wales. All three schemes offer both the custodial and insurance-based protection schemes. They are:

Organisation Structure

Fleming Lettings and Developments UK Limited, trading as Fleming Lettings UK Limited, is a lettings agency and property management business with operations in the United Kingdom. The Company operates in the property sector, and our Regulator is ARLA. The Company has one office based in Wolverhampton that is staffed by our administration staff and our letting agents. The Company and its employees operate solely within the United Kingdom.

Supply Chain

The Company recognises that we have a responsibility to take a robust approach to tackling slavery and human trafficking violations within its supply chain, and we are committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking within its supply chain.

The nature of the Company’s supply chain is as follows:

1. Office space proprietor, including cleaning and caretaking services.
2. IT hardware suppliers.
3. IT software suppliers.
4. Telecommunications providers.
5. Office equipment suppliers.
6. Office furnishings suppliers.
7. Contingency planning services and suppliers, including outsourced office support (within the United Kingdom) and telephony management.
8. Professional Services, including accountancy, legal, tenant referencing.

Our policies on Slavery and Human Trafficking

 We are committed to ensuring there is no modern slavery or human trafficking taking place in any part of our business, or any of our supply chains. Our Anti-Slavery Policy reflects our commitment to act ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships, as well as to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure that slavery and/or human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.

Due Diligence

In accordance with our commitment to identify and mitigate the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking in our business or our supply chains, we have examined our own practices together with our suppliers of goods and services as detailed above to determine where and how we could ensure there is no slavery and human trafficking affecting any of our suppliers. We have adopted the following due diligence procedures:

• Internal supplier audits.
• Generic research and negative new searches for existing and/or prospect suppliers/contractors

These procedures aim to:

• Identify and action potential risks in our business and supply chains.
• Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chains.
• Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains.

Our director and senior management have examined the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking within the business and have determined that the risks are low. We operate solely and exclusively within the United Kingdom and do not have any presence outside of the UK.. The Company checks every prospective employee’s right to work status before making any offer of employment, and we subject every prospective tenant to a rigorous referencing system to determine their viability and to confirm they are not a victim of modern slavery or human trafficking.

Our director and senior management have examined the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking within our suppliers of goods (such as the suppliers of furnishings and equipment) and services (such as professional services) and we have concluded that the risk here is low. The businesses used in our supply chain are large, reputable organisations with established, significant online presences, and are often based in, or have registered offices, in the UK. We only engage with and purchase services or materials from such companies, which we believe limits our potential for encouraging or interacting with modern slavery or human trafficking.

We continually seek to improve our practices and develop processes that will:

• Assess and identify potential risks in our supply chain.
• Mitigate these risks in our supply chains.
• Monitor potential risk areas.
• Protect any whistle-blowers.

Training

We ensure that all staff within the Company have a high level of understanding of the risks posed by modern slavery and human trafficking to our business, and to our supply chain, and we ensure this is retained with regular training.

Fleming Lettings are a equal rights employee and aim to give a positive effect on the world that we both work and live in.

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