Automated nightly scanning for indicators of labour exploitation across your entire workforce and supply chain. Cross-organisation awareness. Alerts to principal contractors only. Built for Section 54 compliance.
Book a DemoThe construction industry has one of the highest rates of modern slavery in the UK. The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) identifies construction as a priority sector, and the indicators are well documented: workers sharing a single address, identical emergency contacts across unrelated individuals, wages paid into the same bank account.
The problem is that these indicators are buried in separate records across separate companies. A principal contractor might have 40 subcontractors on a single project. Each subcontractor holds their own worker data in their own system. Nobody is comparing addresses across companies. Nobody is checking whether the emergency contact listed for a worker at Subcontractor A is the same person listed for a worker at Subcontractor B.
Manual checks happen rarely, if at all. When they do, they rely on someone spotting a pattern in a spreadsheet. By the time an indicator is noticed, the exploitation may have been ongoing for months. Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires large organisations to report the steps they are taking to prevent slavery in their supply chains. A spreadsheet that nobody checks is not a defensible step.
AttendIQ runs an automated nightly scan across your entire workforce, including supply chain workers, checking for recognised indicators of labour exploitation.
The nightly scan compares home addresses across all workers connected to your projects. When multiple unrelated workers share the same address, an alert is raised. The system accounts for legitimate shared housing by flagging rather than blocking, giving your safeguarding lead the information to investigate.
The scan checks for identical emergency contacts across workers who are not declared family members. A single person listed as the emergency contact for multiple unrelated workers is a recognised GLAA indicator. Matches are flagged with the names and roles of the affected workers.
AttendIQ can detect matches across supply chain boundaries. If a worker at one subcontractor shares an address with a worker at a different subcontractor, the principal contractor is alerted without revealing the other organisation's worker identity. This protects privacy while surfacing the risk.
Alerts are sent to principal contractor admins only. Supply chain admins are deliberately excluded. This is a safeguarding decision: if a supply chain company is involved in exploitation, alerting their admin would compromise the investigation. The alert history creates an auditable record for Section 54 reporting.
Every night, AttendIQ scans all active worker records connected to your organisation. Home addresses, emergency contacts, and bank account details are compared across workers, including those employed by your supply chain companies.
When indicators are found, alerts are sent to principal contractor admins. Each alert identifies the indicator type, the affected workers, and the relevant details. Admins can review, add notes, and escalate to their safeguarding lead or external authorities.
Every scan, alert, and investigation action is logged. The resulting audit trail demonstrates active due diligence for your annual Modern Slavery Act statement. Platform admins can trigger additional manual scans outside the nightly schedule.
AttendIQ scans for three primary indicators: shared home addresses across multiple workers, shared emergency contacts across workers who are not declared family members, and shared bank account details. These indicators are recognised by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) as warning signs of labour exploitation. The nightly scan compares records across your entire workforce, including supply chain workers connected to your projects.
AttendIQ can detect when a worker at one supply chain company shares an address or emergency contact with a worker at a different supply chain company. The alert goes to the principal contractor only, not to the supply chain admins. The alert identifies the indicator type and the affected workers but does not reveal the identity of workers belonging to another organisation. This protects the privacy of individuals while giving the principal contractor the information they need to investigate.
Alerts are sent to principal contractor admins only. Supply chain admins do not receive alerts, by design. This is a safeguarding decision: if a supply chain company is involved in exploitation, alerting their admin would compromise the investigation. Principal contractor admins can escalate to their safeguarding lead, the GLAA, or the police as appropriate. Platform admins can also trigger manual scans.
The automated scan runs nightly across the entire platform. It checks all active workers connected to your organisation, including supply chain workers assigned to your projects. Principal contractor admins can also view the most recent scan results at any time from the compliance section of the admin portal. Platform admins have the ability to trigger manual scans outside the nightly schedule.
Yes. Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires commercial organisations with a turnover above 36 million pounds to publish an annual modern slavery statement describing the steps taken to prevent slavery in their operations and supply chains. AttendIQ provides automated, documented due diligence that can be referenced in your annual statement. The nightly scan, alert history, and investigation records create an auditable trail showing that your organisation is actively monitoring for indicators of exploitation.
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