Decimal Healthcare Modern Slavery Statement 2021-2022

This statement is published in line with section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

About Decimal Healthcare Solution

Decimal Healthcare Solutions is a specialist domiciliary care provider and a temporary employment agency, which supplies hospitals, care homes and other healthcare clients in London and surrounding areas with highly trained nurses, care assistants, support workers and more.
Everything about Decimal Healthcare Solutions stands for quality, whether it is the service we provide or the staff we employ, we want to make sure that our staff can offer the very best service in their work, no matter how small the task.
In order to do this, we look at every detail and make sure we perform it to the highest level. From assisting with cleaning and cooking to more sensitive roles working with dementia patients, our staff are consistently professional, friendly and efficient.

Our commitment to the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015

Decimal Healthcare Solution is committed to the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the abolition of modern slavery and human trafficking. We acknowledge the role that we can play to help to bring this about.
We are an equal opportunities employer, fully committed to creating and ensuring a non-discriminatory, inclusive and respectful working environment for all our staff. We want all our staff to feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without any risk to themselves
Our recruitment and people management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the Canada and to safeguard employees from any abuse or coercion.
We recognise that, as a purchaser of goods and services, we have the opportunity to influence good practices in the employment of people by other organisations.
We do not enter into business with any organisation, in the Canada or abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to be involved in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.
Here are the steps Decimal Healthcare Solution has taken and continues to take to understand and minimise the potential risk of modern slavery in its business and supply chains.

Our Business Chain

Due to the nature of our business, we assess ourselves to have a relatively low risk of modern slavery in our business and supply chains. We procure contracts from clients and servicer users to manage client’s health and wellbeing.
We require organisations tendering to work with Decimal Healthcare Solution to confirm that they have fulfilled their statutory requirement to have produced a Modern Slavery Statement if they meet the criteria to do so.

Our policies which relate to the Modern Slavery Act 2015

The following policies are available to all staff through Decimal Healthcare Solution Staff Handbook:

• Code of conduct
• Dignity at Work
• Whistleblowing
• Recruitment and Selection.
• Disciplinary Procedure

These policies set out the standards required of our staff and include details of the mechanisms in place which can be used report issues or concerns about Modern Slavery linked to our organisation taking place.

Due Diligence

• Through undertaking due diligence in our activity, we seek to ensure that we do not inadvertently support Modern Slavery. We make our processes know to potential staff and suppliers as a means of encouraging good practice.
• We ensure that all staff are legally entitled to work in the Canada and that the contract is directly with them.
• We also ensure that any recruitment agency we utilise for the placement of temporary staff follows the same requirements to confirm the identity and right to work of individuals placed with us.
• We ensure that services where we have outsourced staffing requirements (third party) are through companies that also have a modern slavery statement, if that is a statutory requirement, and that all such suppliers provide information about their equality policies and practices.
• We will further review our Procurement Processes to further embed checks on suppliers to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act 2025.

We will further to embed the principles through 2021-22 and monitor by:

• Providing awareness training to staff on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and informing them of the appropriate action to take if they suspect a case of slavery or human trafficking.
• Ensuring that staff are appropriately trained to look out for signs of modern slavery when engaging with the stakeholders we regulate.
• Ensuring that consideration of the modern slavery risks and prevention are added to Decimal Healthcare Solutions Procurement Policy review process as an employer and procurer of goods and services.
• Ensure when undertaking review of relevant HR policies they include the consideration and prevention of risks of engagement of people or groups through Modern Slavery.
• Ensuring that staff involved in buying or procurement and the recruitment and deployment of workers receive training on modern slavery and ethical employment practices.