Every employee or client (landlord or tenant) is entitled to an environment that promotes dignity, equality and respect for all. Forest Estates will not tolerate any acts of unlawful or unfair discrimination(including harassment) committed against an employee, contractor, job applicant or visitor because of a protected characteristic:

• sex;
• gender reassignment;
• marriage and civil partnership;
• pregnancy and maternity;
• race (including ethnic origin, colour, nationality and national origin);
• disability;
• sexual orientation;
• religion and or belief; and
• age.

No form of intimidation, bullying or harassment will be tolerated. If you believe that you may have suffered discrimination because of any of the above protected characteristics, you should consider the appropriateness and feasibility of attempted informal resolution by following the complaints procedure.

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

FOREST ESTATES PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED (Hereinafter called Forest Estates)

Introduction

Forest Estates remains committed to ensuring we trade ethically, source responsibly, and work to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking throughout our organisation. We ensure steps are taken to identify the areas within the business that may be exposed to these risks and ensure they are as far as possible eliminated.

• cleaning;
• suppliers of professional services (e.g. software & IT, legal, accountancy, insurance);
• office services (fitters, cleaners, support services);
• telecoms providers, board/sign companies; and

In addition to the above, services the Group procures to assist its customers include property management services and trades, across all relevant sectors.

Our Policies and Code of Conduct

Forest Estates recognises not only the need to comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, but also to do the right thing. Forest Estates operating activities have continued to grow, yet maintains the view that the overall risk of slavery and trafficking within the Company is extremely low. This assessment is based both on the nature of the business, which is a service-based offering operating almost exclusively within Greater London, UK, within the same industry, as well as the responses to these risks as already implemented.

Forest Estates standard practice is to check that prospective employees have the right to work in the UK. We do not generally employ agency staff. Where we work with suppliers, these are generally large organisations. Through our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policy we aim to create a sustainable organisation, respecting and upholding human rights in the workplace, aiming for fair treatment and mutual respect amongst all employees. By maintaining financial controls, transparency, monitoring and compliance standards and by combatting bribery, corruption, money laundering and other malpractice, we strive to be a responsible corporate citizen. We vet parties who want to work with us. We expect them to adhere to our policy and principles. We are committed to ensuring there is no slavery or human trafficking in our organisation or our supply chain. Our Employees are advised as to who to contact regarding Whistleblowing. This allows our employees to ‘speak up’ if they think they have a matter of concern they want to speak about with someone entirely independent from the Group. This is to increase awareness within the Company. A We observe that the risks of trafficking and slavery may arise within the private rented sector. We train all our staff on our Anti-Money Laundering policy and where appropriate we identify the possible risks of modern slavery and human-trafficking within the private rented sector, for example, illegal immigration or prostitution. Where we identify such wrongdoing, we will not hesitate to notify and co-operate with the relevant authorities to ensure that victims are helped, and that perpetrators are brought to justice. In the event we become aware of a modern slavery or trafficking issue within our supply chain or in our business we will make every effort to remedy the issue. In the event we are unable to do so we will terminate the relationship. To date we have not encountered any slavery or trafficking issues in our supply chain or in our business. We will continue throughout to review our policies and procedures to further reduce as far as possible the risk of slavery and human trafficking anywhere in our supply chains or within the Company as a whole. We remain committed to ensuring our staff understand the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking to our business and supply chains and that they are aware that such practices will not be tolerated.