VINCI Construction Holding Limited is part of the VINCI Group, a global player in concessions and construction. We design, finance, build and operate infrastructure and facilities that help improve daily life and mobility for all.
VINCI Construction Holding Limited, to which this statement applies, is made up of 5 key delegations, all operating in the built environment. These are Eurovia, Ringway, VINCI Building, Taylor Woodrow and VINCI Facilities.
VINCI Construction Holding Limited has strong relationships with other VINCI companies and subsidiaries and as a result, can leverage ideas, skills and entrepreneurial flair to deliver high-quality work across all sectors.
All group companies share a mutual code of ethics and conduct, the code is delivered by the Chief Executive of VINCI Construction Holding Limited. Principles of the code of ethics and conduct are reflected in our vision and development of our modern slavery statement.
The VINCI Group continue to be a contributing member of the UN Global Compact and takes its responsibility to avoid and mitigate any modern slavery in its operations extremely seriously.
Our approach to modern slavery is governed by our main board, who provide leadership from the top down, continually striving for best practiceand leading by example.
Our modern slavery statement is communicated to our supply chain, embedded into our sustainable procurement policy, and has become part of the way we work.
We have in place a number of key policies and documents which explicitly state how we operate as a business in relation to people and the steps taken to ensure that we are a transparent, accessible and inclusive organisation. These policies and documents are reviewed annually and updated to ensure that ongoing opportunities for improvement are identified and acted upon. These policies include:
We carry out Right to Work and Pre-Employment checks on all employees joining our organisation and this includes the employee being able to provide evidence that they are in possession of their own identification documents and that the bank account details provided belong to the employee and not a third party. Any discrepancies identified are investigated thoroughly and appropriate action taken.
As well as internal procedures for direct employees to highlight any concerns they may have, we also provide a confidential reporting service, Safecall, which is available for employees, members of our supply chain and members of the general public. This is a service operated by an independent third party, and is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
In respect of our contingent labour and resource processes, we operate a robust system, working with a consistent number of recruitment agency partners, supported by our managed service provider. We have in place annual reviews and update our contracts with the recruitment agency partners. Each partner and every single temporary worker that have been engaged within our business is audited to ensure compliance with our internal process, expectations and the contract requirements.
To continue to develop our approach to sustainable procurement and Modern Slavery we are continuing to align our procurement processes to the ISO20400 guidance standard. As part of this alignment, we have introduced a sustainable procurement plan which sets out our priorities and objectives in relation to Natural (Environment), Human (Economic) and Social capitals.
Human Rights and Modern Slavery fall under the Social Capital priority and the objective is to ensure that high risk sector supply chain partners are engaged in Modern Slavery due diligence activity, providing VINCI with an opportunity to increase transparency and mitigate risk within the supply chain.
We have established a working group with representation from each Delegation and our support services. The working group has undertaken heatmapping exercises to help us understand the risk against each one of our sustainable procurement objectives, including Modern Slavery, and what measures we need to have in place to mitigate against them.
We have a robust approach to supply chain management and realised that it was critical to the success of our modern slavery strategy to engage with, support and develop our supply chain in this regard.
We have also worked as part of the Supply Chain Sustainability School Modern Slavery Special Interest Group working collaboratively with other main contractors and suppliers to highlight risk areas within our supply chain.
We ensure that the objectives of the ‘People Matter Charter’ specifically around Modern Slavery are being integrated into our processes and those of our key Supply Chain.
We have worked with our managed service provider to review our approach to auditing our contingent labour supply chain, introducing a more robust compliance process. As well as company checks this also ensures that every contingent worker that enters site has been vetted and all right to work and identity checks have been carried out thoroughly.
We have also:
We have introduced additional requirements within our prequalification process in relation to Modern Slavery. This process is managed centrally by our compliance team.
We continue to work with Build UK as part of a cross industry body to embed the ‘Common Assessment Standard’, which will not only improve efficiency and reduce cost but will also raise the standard of prequalification, this includes a more robust approach to verifying Modern Slavery understanding and competence within our supply chain.
Moving forward we will be reviewing our Prequalification process and working to secure additional information and due diligence from our supply chain across several sustainability topics, including modern slavery.
In 2024 we worked with an independent consultant to undertake a full review of our current approach to Modern Slavery. This included a full review of our processes and procedures and assessed where we may have gaps or areas for improvement.
As an output, the report has given us tailored recommendations for how we could improve due diligence processes, policy and overall risk mitigation strategies. We have delivered an initial Modern Slavery action plan that we will enhance as we move into 2025 and deliver a robust modern slavery strategy document.
We continue to work with external partners to promote open access learning resources to train and develop not only direct employees but also our wider supply chain.
At the start of 2022 we launched a bespoke Modern Slavery eLearning module, with the aim of ensuring we continued to improve our understanding of the risks of modern slavery and set clear targets.
We believe it is important to support the upskilling of our Supply Chain. We give free access to our VINCI Academy eLearning modules to support supply chain development. In 2025 we will continue to promote our module on modern slavery risk to our supply chain that have been designated as ‘high risk’ for modern slavery through our heatmapping process.
Through our alignment to the ISO 20400 sustainable procurement guidance standard, we have continued to embed measures into our processes to combat Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. Our VINCI Construction Modern Slavery working group in the UK, will continue to meet regularly and to push this agenda as well as producing a yearly statement to outline our progress.
In 2024 we:
In 2025, we will:
This statement is made in accordance with Section 54 (1) of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes VINCI Construction HoldingLimited Modern Slavery Statement for the financial year 31st December 2025, published January 2025. Our next statement will be published in January 2026.
Scott Wardrop
Chief Executive
VINCI Construction Holding Limited
This policy applies to all delegations within the UK Division of VINCI Construction
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