Clawson Farms

Modern Slavery

Organisation
This statement applies to Long Clawson Dairy Ltd. (referred to in this statement as “the Organisation). The information included in the statement refers to the financial year 2025/2026.

Definitions
The Organisation considers that modern slavery encompasses:
human trafficking
forced work, through mental or physical threat
being owned or controlled by an employer through mental or physical abuse or the threat of
abuse
being dehumanised, treated as a commodity or being bought or sold as property
being physically constrained or to have restriction placed on freedom of movement.

Commitment

The Organisation acknowledges its responsibilities in relation to tackling modern slavery and commits
to complying with the provisions in the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The Organisation understands that
this requires an ongoing review of both its internal practices in relation to its labour force and,
additionally, its supply chains.

The Organisation does not enter into business with any other organisation, in the United Kingdom or
abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to involve itself in slavery, servitude and forced or
compulsory labour.

No labour provided to the Organisation in the pursuance of the provision of its own services is obtained
by means of slavery or human trafficking. The Organisation strictly adheres to the minimum standards
required in relation to its responsibilities under relevant employment in the UK

Organisational structure

Long Clawson Dairy is a farming co-operative, established in 1911. The head office is based in Long
Clawson in Melton Mowbray, with a blended cheese operation site in Bottesford. The company
reports a turnover of £92 million and employs 480 permanent employees.

Our Business

The Organisation is organised into functions, Operations, Commercial, Financial and Technical. Each
function is headed by an Executive Director, with Senior Managers and staff reporting into them.

Temporary labour is supplied by five GLA accredited and regularly audited Companies, Turner
Stubbs, Ambitions, Reflect Recruitment, Travail and Barker Ross.

Milk suppliers are members of the Organisations co-operative board of farmers and work in
conjunction with the Organisations Executive Director Team, led by the Managing Director. As a

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co-operative the Organisation ensure that when it achieves its KPl’s, the profits are shared with all
employees through the Profit Related Bonus Scheme.

Supply chain structure

In order to fulfil its activities, the main supply chains of the Organisation include those related to the
supply of ingredients, packaging and services from approved suppliers and contractors in the UK or
abroad.

Organisational policies

The Organisation has the following policies which further define its stance on modern slavery and
reflect its commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all of its business relationships and to
implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to eradicate slavery.

The Ethical Policy shows clear commitment to ensuring that operations and supply chains are
trafficking and slavery free.

  • The Grievance Policy states that it is designed to ensure that employees complaints or
    disputes are dealt with promptly and where necessary, formally. This procedure, though non-
    contractual, applies to all employees with the aim of ensuring consistent and fair treatment for
    all in the business.
  • Policy documents are made available to all staff in their induction booklets and are also
    available on the company’s shared platform and from the People & Culture Department.
  • Working in partnership with Crimestoppers, The Integrity Line, is an additional resource in the
    unlikely event that staff need to pass on anonymous information about wrongdoing at work.
    The Integrity Line number is displayed on the Crimestoppers poster on Company Notice Boar

Due diligence in relation to modern slavery

The Organisation carries out due diligence processes in relation to ensuring slavery and/or human
trafficking does not take place in its organisation or supply chains, including conducting a review of the
controls of its suppliers.
As part of the Organisations initiative to identify and mitigate risk it has in place systems to:

Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains and work towards improvement of potential
risk.
Protect whistle blowers, via our new policy on Whistleblowers, via Sedex, self-assessment
checking suppliers and our Crimestoppers Integrity Line.
Work in collaboration with our customers and act on advice received from the Stronger
Together multi-stakeholder initiative.

The Organisation has zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure all those in its
supply chain and contractors comply with its values the Organisation has in place a dedicated
compliance team, which consists of the People & Culture Manager, the Technical Director and the
Senior Buyer from the following departments:

  • Audit and compliance.
  • People & Culture
  • Procurement.

Training

To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in the
Organisations supply chains and its business, the Organisation communicate to staff via internal
communication and also require its business partners to provide training to their staff and suppliers
and providers.

Monitoring and evaluation

The Organisation submit to independent third parties, Supplier Ethical Data Exchange and the Sedex members Ethical Trade Audit to Conduct externally facilitated reviews to bring insights on way to tackle slavery and human trafficking.

Steps

  • The Organisation has not, to its knowledge, conducted any business with another organisation which
  • has been found to have involved itself with modern slavery.
  • In accordance with section 54(4) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Organisation has taken the
  • following steps to ensure that modern slavery is not taking place:
  • Ongoing due diligence to new starters to the business, supplying them with a copy of the modern slavery policy in their induction booklets.
  • Ongoing farmer engagement and awareness raising in the UK.
  • Introducing new computer systems to create efficiencies for the ongoing robust checking for internal data in the UK (such as employee bank details and addresses) to identify any risk areas.
  • Review of contractor information, including reviewing their commitment to removing risks of forced labour and ensuring sub-contracting does not take place without our consent.
  • On going supplier engagement and awareness raising in the UK, further embedding our purchasing policy and correct purchasing behaviour to increase the usage of our preferred suppliers.

This statement is made in pursuance of s.54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and will be reviewed for each financial year.

Print name: W. MATHIESON’
Job Title: MANAGING DIRECTOR.
Date: 715/2025