Modern Slavery Statement.
Introduction
Modern slavery is an international crime affecting over 40 million people around the world. This growing global issue transcends age, gender and ethnicities. It includes victims trafficked from overseas and vulnerable people in the UK who are forced illegally to work against their will across many different sectors such as agriculture, hospitality, construction, retail and manufacturing.
We are committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking and we expect organisations with whom we do business to adopt and enforce policies to comply with the legislation.
Our Business
QuantSpark is a data science consultancy with 30 employees. We create meaningful insight from complex data and use this to build analytical tools that solve strategic problems, helping our clients make significant and lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals.
We employ UK based staff to conduct our business operations. Most operations roles are carried out by third parties such as an HR consultancy, recruitment consultancy, and a provider of IT managed services. Most facilities support roles (e.g. cleaning and maintenance) are typically undertaken by third party suppliers.
Our Supply Chains
Our supply chain comprises primarily services, including professional advisory services, travel services, outsourced administrative and IT services, as well as office supplies and building management. We have reviewed our supply chain and believe the overall risk of modern slavery is low owing to:
The nature of the goods and services which we procure (mostly services, mostly skilled professions).
The locations from which we procure them (developed markets).
Our procurement practices (for example, we agree to reasonable terms and ensure timely payment).
While the overall level of risk is low, our internal criteria also enables us to identify where the risk may be higher. We ensure we and our contractors pay at least the London Living Wage to all employees e.g. to cleaning staff.
Our policies
Our internal policies reflect our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chain.
Our due diligence processes
We have embedded checks for modern slavery in our routine supplier due diligence process and have raised awareness of these issues with colleagues who manage this supplier vetting process.
Future performance indicators
Going forward, we aim to provide continued guidance and training on spotting modern slavery to increase awareness for our people and clients.
Our Modern Slavery Statement has been published in accordance with section 54 of the Act. It sets out the steps Quant Spark Limited have taken to ensure slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in its supply chains or in any part of its business. The statement applies to the financial year ending 31 August 2020.
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Contact Us
If you have any enquiries or if you would like to contact us about our processing of your personal information, including to exercise your rights as outlined above, please contact us centrally by any of the methods below.
When you contact us, we will ask you to verify your identity.
Contact name: Adam Hadley
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8075 7677
Email: enquiries@quantspark.com
Post: 230 Blackfriars, London, SE1 8NW