What forced labour and modern slavery mean in practice, why the regulatory environment is intensifying, what businesses are now expected to do – and how to build an approach that goes beyond compliance.

Explains the key definitions, the different forms modern slavery takes, its scale globally, and what these concepts mean in practice for businesses operating or sourcing internationally.

Explains the established indicators of forced labour, why many conventional identification methods are poorly suited to detecting it, and what more effective approaches look like in practice.

Sets out the key legislative frameworks, what each requires in practice, and what companies should be doing now to prepare.

Sets out what a modern slavery statement needs to cover, what distinguishes a strong statement from a weak one, how to approach the statement as part of an ongoing programme rather than an annual compliance exercise, and how to use ETI’s evaluation framework to assess and improve your own statement.

Understanding where the risk is highest is the starting point for any meaningful risk assessment.

Sets out the specific vulnerabilities of migrant workers in supply chains, the role of labour recruitment in creating and enabling exploitation, key contexts where risk is highest, and what effective business responses look like.

Sets out what effective remediation looks like when forced labour is identified in a supply chain: the immediate priorities, the decisions that need to be made, the distinction between private and state-imposed forced labour, the role of disengagement as a genuine last resort, and what workers are entitled to when things have gone wrong.