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Policies · Policy 08

Modern Slavery Statement

Financial year ending 31 March 2026. Issued voluntarily; DFA Machine sits below the £36m statutory threshold of section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

1. Our business

DFA Machine Ltd is a UK independent IT consultancy (company number 17276533) providing infrastructure audits, cloud and bare-metal hosting, managed Kubernetes, security assessments and web portal engineering to small and medium businesses across the UK and EU. We employ 18 people directly across London, Manchester and Frankfurt.

2. Our supply chain

Our supply chain consists primarily of: datacentre colocation providers (Equinix, Telehouse, Interxion), hardware OEMs (Dell, Supermicro, Lenovo), connectivity providers (Cogent, Lumen, BT Wholesale), software vendors (Red Hat, GitLab, Cloudflare), professional-services contractors and SaaS tooling. All material suppliers are headquartered in the UK, EU or US.

3. Risk assessment

We assess modern-slavery risk as low across our direct operations (skilled, salaried UK/EU workforce on full statutory protections) and low-to-moderate in our extended hardware supply chain, particularly around upstream raw materials and assembly. Higher inherent risk is assumed for components manufactured in regions flagged by the US Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child or Forced Labor.

4. Policies

Our anti-slavery commitment is embedded in the Supplier Code of Conduct, the Employee Handbook, the Recruitment Policy and the Whistleblowing Policy (see Speak-Up Policy). All policies are reviewed annually and approved by the Board.

5. Due diligence

  • All material suppliers must accept the Supplier Code of Conduct prior to onboarding.
  • Tier-1 hardware OEMs are required to evidence active membership of the Responsible Business Alliance or an equivalent programme.
  • Higher-risk suppliers undergo a documented modern-slavery questionnaire and, where proportionate, an on-site audit.
  • Recruitment is performed in-house or through agencies certified by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.

6. Training

All employees complete modern-slavery awareness training during onboarding. Procurement and people-team staff receive additional training annually.

7. Effectiveness

We track: percentage of material suppliers accepting the Supplier Code (target 100%), modern-slavery clauses in active contracts (target 100%), training completion (target 100%), and number of credible concerns raised and resolved (target: every concern investigated within 14 days). For FY 2026 all targets were met and zero credible concerns were raised.

8. Approval

This statement was approved by the Board of DFA Machine Ltd on 12 April 2026 and signed by the Managing Director on its behalf.