This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and relates to the actions and activities for the financial year ending 2021.Innovative Energy Consultants (‘the Company’, ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’) is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations, its supply chain and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values.
Innovative Energy Consultants business operations are in the United Kingdom. Our customers and suppliers are based in the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.We operate in the Energy and Sustainability Consulting sector. We provide Sustainability Consultancy services to SMEs across all sectors in the UK, who are seeking to become more sustainable. We also provide Growth Consultancy services to clean tech start-ups globally.The vast majority of our suppliers and partners are based in the UK.
We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. These include the following: Equal Opportunities Policy, Environmental Policy, Social Value Policy and a Privacy Policy.We are committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards.As an equal opportunities’ employer, we are committed to creating and ensuring a non-discriminatory and respectful working environment for our staff. We want all our staff to feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without any risk to themselves.We endeavour to make our suppliers are aware of our policies and ensure they adhere to the same standards.
Our recruitment and people management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the UK.We do not enter into business with any organisation, in the UK or elsewhere, which knowingly supports or is found to be involved in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.
Our due diligence aims to:
We have evaluated the nature and extent of our exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our UK supply chain and we consider that we operate in a low risk-environment.We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with our policies and procedures by any of our suppliers, we will terminate all commercial relations with such suppliers.
