Natural History Museum modern slavery statement summary (2022)
Organisation address
Cromwell Road,
South Kensington,
London,
United Kingdom,
SW7 5BD
South Kensington,
London,
United Kingdom,
SW7 5BD
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 all 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
Go to full modern slavery statement on organisation’s website
PDF version of the statement (optional)
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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
- Organisations covered by the statement
- Legal requirement to publish
- Statement period and sign-off details
- Recommended topics covered by the statement
- The organisation’s sectors and turnover
- Number of years producing statements
- Policies
- Training
- Monitoring working conditions
- Modern slavery risks
- Finding indicators of modern slavery
- Demonstrating progress
Organisations covered by the statement
Natural History Museum modern slavery statement for 2022 is a group statement covering 3 organisations. See the full list of organisations covered by this statement
Legal requirement to publish
Published voluntarily
Natural History Museum has confirmed it is not required to publish a 2022 statement by law.
Statement period and sign-off details
The statement covers the following period:
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
The statement was signed off by:
The Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint (Chair of the Board of Trustees)
It was approved by the board (or equivalent management body) on:
5 July 2022
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 | Covered |
The organisation’s sectors and turnover
Sectors
The organisation operates in the following sectors:
- Public sector
Turnover
Its turnover in the financial accounting year of this statement was:
£60 million to £100 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.
Organisation’s response
The organisation told us its policies do not include any of the provisions we listed in our question.
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 | No |
| Your front line staff | No |
| Human resources | No |
| Executive-level staff | Yes |
| Procurement staff | Yes |
| Your suppliers | No |
| The wider community | No |
| Other |
NHS, Local Government, other museums, a group of Canadian universities
|
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 | Yes |
| Professional auditors | Yes |
| Workers within your organisation | No |
| Workers within your supply chain | No |
| 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.
| Social audits we asked about | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Audit conducted by your staff | No |
| Third party audit arranged by your organisation | Yes |
| Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff | No |
| Third party audit arranged by your supplier | Yes |
| Announced audit | No |
| Unannounced audit | No |
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 | No |
| Through trade unions or other worker representative groups | Yes |
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:
Electronics Watch, a civil society organisation engaged in monitoring global electronics supply chains, commissioned audits carried out by third parties in factories on behalf of affiliates.
Modern slavery risks (optional)
Warning
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)
Rights of workers manufacturing electronics in China, India and Poland.
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
|
| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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| In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: The Museum is affiliated to Electronics Watch, which monitors global electronics supply chains for labour rights abuses. A social audit by Polish Human Rights in Business uncovered a risk of discrimination to workers in the factory where our laptops were made. We contacted Dell who this year reversed a decision and arranged for the worker rewards system to be translated into the local native language, thus allowing more workers to gain access to rewards. |
Priority risks for this organisation (2 of 3)
Rights of workers and migrant workers manufacturing garments and toys in Bangladesh, India and China.
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
|
| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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| In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: The Museum continues to use Sedex, a database for sharing factory social audits conducted onbehalf of customers. The Museum can monitor factory audits and corrective action plans. |
Priority risks for this organisation (3 of 3)
Rights of temporary labourers providing construction, cleaning, catering and security services.
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
|
| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
|
| In which country | Organisation’s response: United Kingdom |
| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: We are actively including contract award criteria relating to the risk of labour rights abuses in two major construction contracts in accordance with Government policy. We are also working with our contractors to help protect workers from the risks, particularly where temporary workers supplement directly employed workers. |
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
Organisation’s response
The organisation told us its statement does not refer to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.
Demonstrating progress (optional)
We asked the organisation how its statement demonstrates progress over time in addressing modern slavery risks.
They provided the following answer:
We measure the number and proportion of our suppliers registered on the Sedex system and specific actions taken to address individual risks, e.g. written assurances about worker recruitment practice from key contractors.