Sustainable procurement

Addressing modern slavery risk in supply chains is not just the responsibility of sustainability or human rights teams. Procurement plays a vital role by understanding the supply chain and identifying high-risk suppliers and products. By leveraging their influence, procurement can help prevent modern slavery and promote ethical practices. 

This workshop offers insights into sustainable procurement and modern slavery, providing practical ways for procurement professionals to integrate risk considerations into their decision-making.

• Learn how to integrate modern slavery into your procurement process.
• Receive practical and actionable advice.
• Learn from your peers' experience.
• Boost your core skills. 

• Become familiar with legal compliance frameworks, requirements and standards relating to sustainable procurement and modern slavery.
• Understand current and emerging human rights and modern slavery issues and how they impact supply chains.
• Recognise legal issues and commonly faced dilemmas and explore practical solutions.
• Evaluate the importance of stakeholder engagement and consultation.

Health and safety professionals, legal and procurement professionals, executive-level managers and directors, academics and students, sustainability and ethical managers, governance managers, compliance teams, ESG (environmental, social and governance) committees and executive boards.