Modern Slavery & 

North East Nursing & Care Services takes a robust approach in recruiting workforce. We communicate directly with all candidates, to discuss any work opportunities and to confirm details of any offer made. We have robust procedures in place for the vetting of new employees and workers and ensure that we are able to confirm their identities, their right to work in the United Kingdom and that they are paid directly into an appropriate, personal bank account. For any employee or worker with a work permit or visa, we carry out regular audits and management of these documents to ensure they remain valid. NEN have compliance staff including a recruitment/training manager to ensure this policy is maintained across the organisation. The company also regularly audit the employee records and the results are reported to both the management and the owner of the company to ensure transparency. In order to ensure other organisations comply with our own standards and values, we have put in place several measures to assess and manage supply chain risk. These include undertaking due diligence on our key suppliers by periodically auditing their modern slavery statements and through mandatory compliance terms in all new or updated supply contracts. We focus our supplier due diligence by identifying higher risk suppliers by category of service /product and/or the geography of their operations.