STATOM GROUP LIMITED modern slavery statement summary (2026)

Organisation address

Statom House, 795 London Road,
Grays,
Essex,
England,
RM20 3LH

We asked the organisation a series of questions about its modern slavery statement. Its answers are published on this page as a statement summary.

This statement provides information for 5 of 6 recommended topics

What is a modern slavery statement?

UK law requires certain organisations to publish an annual modern slavery statement on their website, setting out the steps they are taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read more in the government guidance on publishing modern slavery statements.

Link to full statement

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About this statement summary

All answers relate to the financial year covered by the statement. The organisation is responsible for all the information it provided. Some of our questions are optional, so organisations may not have answered all of them. The statement summary does not replace the full modern slavery statement – below we provide a link to the full statement on the organisation’s website.

Contents

Legal requirement to publish

STATOM GROUP LIMITED has confirmed it is required to publish a 2026 statement by law.

Statement period and sign-off details

The statement covers the following period:
1 December 2024 to 30 November 2025

The statement was signed off by:
Martina Oyite (Group Chief People Officer)

It was approved by the board (or equivalent management body) on:
14 April 2026

Recommended topics covered by the statement

Government guidance encourages organisations to cover a range of topics in their modern slavery statements, setting out the steps they’re taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read about the recommended topics in the statutory guidance.

We asked the organisation to tell us which topics its statement covers.

Topics recommended by government guidance	Organisation’s response
The organisation’s structure, business and supply chains	Covered
Policies	Covered
Risk assessment	Covered
Due diligence (steps to address risk)	Covered
Training about modern slavery	Covered
Goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the organisation's actions and progress over time	Not covered 100% of active suppliers risk-assessed. 100% of new contracts include modern slavery clauses. 100% of relevant employees are trained each year. 95%+ of concerns triaged within 5 working days.

The organisation’s sectors and turnover

Sectors

The organisation operates in the following sectors:

• Construction, civil engineering and building products

Turnover

Its turnover in the financial accounting year of this statement was:

£100 million to £500 million

If the organisation is a public body, this amount is based on the organisation’s budget for the year of the statement.

What does 'turnover' refer to in group statements?

If this is a group statement, this includes the total turnover for all the organisations covered by the statement.

Number of years producing statements

The organisation has been producing modern slavery statements for the following number of years:

1 to 5 years

How does this work for group statements?

If the statement is for a group of organisations, this answer applies to the organisation with the longest history of producing statements.

Policies (optional)

We asked the organisation whether its policies include the following provisions in relation to its domestic and international supply chains, as well as its own operations.

Policy provisions we asked about	Organisation’s response
Freedom of workers to terminate employment	Not included
Freedom of movement	Not included
Freedom of association	Not included
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation	Included
Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees	Not included
Prohibits compulsory overtime	Not included
Prohibits child labour	Included
Prohibits discrimination	Included
Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents	Not included
Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery	Included
Other	Zero-tolerance approach to slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, and human trafficking Confidential whistleblowing and speak-up reporting channels Fair recruitment and lawful engagement controls Supplier Code of Conduct / ethical sourcing expect

Training (optional)

We asked the organisation whether it provided training on modern slavery, and who it was for.

What counts as training?

We explained that by ‘training’ we meant anything designed to increase knowledge and skills around identifying, addressing or preventing modern slavery risks. This could range from formal training courses to broader awareness-raising activities such as workshops or webinars.

We asked who the training was for	Organisation’s response
Your whole organisation	Yes
Your front line staff	Yes
Human resources	Yes
Executive-level staff	Yes
Procurement staff	Yes
Your suppliers	No
The wider community	No
Other	No

Monitoring working conditions (optional)

Engaging with others

We asked the organisation to tell us who it engaged with to help monitor working conditions across its operations and supply chains.

We asked who the organisation engaged with	Organisation’s response
Your suppliers	Yes
Trade unions or worker representative groups	No
Civil society organisations	No
Professional auditors	No
Workers within your organisation	Yes
Workers within your supply chain	Yes
Central or local government	No
Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates	No
Businesses in your industry or sector	No

Social audits

We asked the organisation to tell us about any social audits it used to look for signs of modern slavery.

What are social audits?

A social audit is a review of an organisation’s working practices from the point of view of social responsibility, and should include an evaluation of working conditions in the organisation’s operations and supply chains. By their nature, audits of supplier workplaces represent a snapshot in time.

Organisation’s response

The organisation told us it did not carry out any social audits during the period of the statement.

Grievance mechanisms

We asked the organisation how workers in its operations or supply chains could raise concerns or make complaints.

We asked if workers could raise concerns this way	Organisation’s response
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app	Yes
Through trade unions or other worker representative groups	No

Other ways of monitoring working conditions

We asked the organisation whether it had any other ways of monitoring working conditions across its operations and supply chains:

We used supplier onboarding and due diligence checks, site-level labour checks, confidential whistleblowing routes, and targeted supplier engagement where risk indicators or concerns arose.

Modern slavery risks (optional)

Identifying modern slavery risks is a vital step towards eradicating it. The government encourages organisations to be as open and transparent as possible, to improve understanding, collaboration and best practice around tackling this worldwide problem.

We asked the organisation to describe up to 3 priority risks it focused on during the period of the statement, including details of the affected workers, the activity involved, and the location.

Priority risks for this organisation (1 of 3)

Temporary and agency construction workers on UK sites, at risk of labour exploitation through subcontracting, coercion, underpayment, unlawful deductions or excessive hours.

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 1 suppliers Provide their products and services directly to your organisation.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Migrants Low-paid and insecure workers, including temporary agency labour and workers with limited English or limited awareness of their employment rights.
In which country	Organisation’s response: United Kingdom
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: We used a risk-based approach including supplier onboarding and due diligence checks, contractual compliance requirements, site-level labour checks, escalation routes, whistleblowing channels, training for relevant teams, and targeted supplier engagement where risks or concerns arose.

Priority risks for this organisation (2 of 3)

Workers supplied through labour providers and subcontractors in the UK construction supply chain, where weak oversight may increase risk of intimidation or unfair recruitment practices.

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 1 suppliers Provide their products and services directly to your organisation.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Migrants Temporary agency workers, low-paid workers, and workers with limited English or limited awareness of their rights.
In which country	Organisation’s response: United Kingdom
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: We applied a risk-based approach to labour providers and subcontractors through supplier onboarding and due diligence checks, contractual compliance requirements, supply chain risk assessment, site-level checks, whistleblowing routes, and targeted supplier engagement and corrective action where concerns arose.

Priority risks for this organisation (3 of 3)

Workers in upstream materials supply chains, including imported construction materials, where forced labour risks may arise further down the supply chain.

Questions we asked about this risk	Organisation’s response
Where it was most likely to occur	Organisation’s response: Within your supply chains. Tier 1 suppliers Provide their products and services directly to your organisation.
Who was it most likely to affect	Organisation’s response: Migrants Low-paid workers, agency labour, and workers with limited bargaining power or visibility in lower-tier supply chains.
In which country	Organisation’s response: United Kingdom
Actions or plans to address this risk	Organisation’s response: We applied a risk-based approach through supplier onboarding and due diligence, contractual compliance requirements, supplier and category risk assessment, targeted supplier engagement, and ongoing review of upstream materials supply chain risks.

Indicators of forced labour (optional)

We asked the organisation whether its statement refers to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.

What are ILO indicators of forced labour?

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has produced a list of the most common signs of forced labour. They’re based on the definition of forced labour as ‘all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.’ More details and guidance are available on the ILO website, and in their publication ILO indicators of forced labour

ILO indicators we asked about	Organisation’s response
Abuse of vulnerability	No
Deception	No
Restriction of movement	No
Isolation	No
Physical and sexual violence	No
Intimidation and threats	Yes
Retention of identity documents	No
Withholding of wages	No
Debt bondage	No
Abusive working and living conditions	No
Excessive overtime	Yes
Other	-

Actions taken in response to finding ILO indicators

We asked the organisation to tell us whether its statement refers to any actions it took after finding indicators of forced labour

Actions we asked about	Organisation’s response
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees	No
Change in policy	No
Change in training	Yes
Referring potential victims to government services	No
Supporting victims via NGO	No
Supporting investigations by relevant authorities	Yes
Other	prompt investigation, specialist support, corrective action plans for suppliers, and proportionate contractual action where concerns arise.

Demonstrating progress (optional)

We asked the organisation how its statement demonstrates progress over time in addressing modern slavery risks. They provided the following answer:

Our statement demonstrates progress over time by describing how we review control effectiveness through internal review, supplier engagement and lessons learned, and by setting clear priorities for improvement in the next reporting period. These include better measurement and reporting on priority risk areas, supplier engagement outcomes, training coverage, reporting themes, and actions taken in response to concerns. We are also using goals and KPIs to track progress year on year.