Introduction

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and relates to actions and activities for the financial year ending 31 December 2025.
Low Carbon Estates Limited (‘the Company’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations, its supply chain, and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values.

Organisational structure

Low Carbon Estates Limited has business operations in the United Kingdom.
We operate in the services of Chartered Surveyors, falling under Class 42, undertaking evaluations, estimates, research, and reports in the scientific and technological field, particularly in the decarbonisation of estates sector. The nature of our supply chains is as follows: We work with a number of key direct suppliers and stakeholders, who provide us with goods, metering equipment and technology, and services, such as additional surveyors, engineers and heat system experts.

Policies

We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner.

These include the following:

  • Procurement policy
    All of our suppliers must undergo a thorough due diligence process, including investigation of the origin of the relevant supplied goods or services. We make sure our suppliers are aware of our policies and adhere to the same standards.
  • Due Diligence
    As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains, we have adopted the following due diligence procedures:

    • Internal supplier audits
    • External supplier audits
    • Identify and take action against potential risks in our business and supply chains
    • Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chains
    • Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains

Risk and compliance

The Company has evaluated the nature and extent of its exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in its UK supply chain through:

  • Evaluating the slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier.
  • Creating an annual risk profile for key suppliers.
  • Reviewing on a regular basis all aspects of the supply chain based on supply chain mapping.

We do not consider that we operate in a high-risk environment because the majority of our supply chain is based in the UK and in low-risk industries, our surveys are non-intrusive and client sites are largely safe and secure with any potential risk mitigated.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with our policies and procedures by any of our suppliers, we will require that supplier to remedy the non-compliance.

Effectiveness

The Company uses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure its effectiveness and ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business and supply chains. These KPIs are as follows:

  • We will train our staff about modern slavery issues and increase awareness within the Company.
  • We will carry out an annual audit of all our suppliers.