Who must publish a modern slavery statement?

Under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, any commercial organisation supplying goods or services with a total annual turnover of £36 million or more, and carrying on business in the UK, must publish an annual slavery and human-trafficking statement. The tool checks your turnover against this threshold.

What must the statement contain?

The Act lists six recommended areas: organisational structure and supply chains, relevant policies, due-diligence processes, risk assessment and management, effectiveness measured against KPIs, and training. A statement may also state that no steps were taken, but that is rarely advisable.

Who has to approve and sign it?

The statement must be approved by the board of directors (or equivalent) and signed by a director, or for an LLP by a designated member, and for a partnership by a partner. It should then be published with a prominent link in a visible place on the organisation's homepage.

How often must we publish?

Once for each financial year, ideally within six months of the financial year end. Each year's statement should show progress on the previous one, so reusing last year's text without updating KPIs and due-diligence actions is a common compliance weakness.

Is the text I enter stored or uploaded?

No. Everything you type is assembled into the draft entirely in your browser. Nothing about your organisation or supply chain is sent to a server, logged or retained, so you can draft sensitive content safely.

What is the Modern Slavery Statement Builder?

Guide businesses with turnover above £36m through the six recommended areas of a Modern Slavery Act 2015 statement — organisational structure and supply chains, policies, due diligence, risk assessment, KPIs, and training — and assemble a structured draft ready for board approval and director sign-off. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

Modern Slavery Statement Builder

Name: Modern Slavery Statement Builder
Creator: Gera Tools
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A Modern Slavery Statement Builder that turns the requirements of Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 into a guided draft. Any organisation carrying on business in the UK with turnover of £36 million or more must publish an annual statement describing the steps it takes to ensure slavery and human trafficking are not occurring in its operations or supply chains. This tool helps compliance, procurement and legal teams produce a complete, well-structured statement ready for board sign-off.

Who must comply

Under Section 54, the duty applies to any commercial organisation that:

supplies goods or services,
has a total annual turnover of £36 million or more, and
carries on a business, or part of a business, in the UK.

“Carrying on a business in the UK” is interpreted broadly by the Home Office — a company incorporated abroad can still be in scope if it has a meaningful UK presence through employees, customers, or contracting activity. Group structures mean parent companies and subsidiaries can each be separately in scope if they individually meet the threshold, so it is worth checking entity by entity.

How it works

The statutory guidance recommends covering six areas, and the builder provides a prompt for each:

1  Organisational structure & supply chains
2  Relevant policies
3  Due-diligence processes
4  Risk assessment & management
5  Effectiveness (KPIs)
6  Training & awareness

You first confirm the £36m turnover threshold and enter the organisation name and financial year. The tool then assembles your answers under properly headed sections, in the order and language regulators and modern-slavery registries expect, and produces a clean draft you can copy into your own document or CMS.

What separates strong statements from weak ones

The Home Office and civil-society monitors regularly review statements published on the Government’s Modern Slavery Statement Registry. The most common weaknesses are:

Restating policy without demonstrating action. Writing “we have a modern slavery policy” is the minimum and earns no credit. Strong statements describe what the policy requires, who enforces it, and what happened when it was breached.

No KPIs or vague ones. “We aim to review suppliers” is not a KPI. Specific metrics — for example, the percentage of tier-1 suppliers audited, the number of supplier training completions, the number of hotline reports received and acted on — demonstrate genuine monitoring.

Missing year-on-year progress. Regulators expect each new statement to build on the last: what did the KPIs show last year, what changed, what is planned? Republishing last year’s text with only the date changed is a transparency failure.

No risk assessment detail. A statement that describes due diligence but does not say which geographies, sectors or supplier tiers carry elevated risk suggests the assessment was not actually done in depth. Acknowledge where the risks are highest.

Approval, publication and good practice

The Act sets formalities the builder reminds you of: the statement must be approved by the board (or equivalent governing body) and signed by a director — a designated member for an LLP, or a partner for a partnership — then published with a prominent homepage link. Publish once per financial year, ideally within six months of year-end.

Since the Modern Slavery Statement Registry launched, the Government can search for your statement; organisations not listed face reputational and enforcement risk. Submit via registry.gov.uk after publication. Treat the output here as a starting draft, not legal advice, and have counsel review the final text.

Everything is assembled locally — none of your content is uploaded or stored.