There are a number of reasons why TISCreport might not list a statement against a company even though they may exist.
1) The company may not have listed the precise subsidiary within the statement, which is one of the minimum compliance requirements stipulated in the Home Office Statutory Guidance. As such, the statement may be listed against the Group holding company but not that subsidiary.
2) The link to the statement has not been correctly named. This is also a compliance fail. Links including "Click here" and "PDF Format" are also not compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act for accessibility of website compliance. Many sites fail this aspect of compliance as well as the UK Equality Act 2010 (EQA). Such sites are coded in a way that also makes it more difficult for our AI bots to search deeply within them to dig out information. However, when this happens our bots instead communicate with companies either via social media or email/contact form asking them to submit their statements manually. Many do this, however there are some that require their buyers to encourage them personally to share their compliance documents. You can do this via the TISCreport mail merge function.
3) The statement may have been submitted but requires manual processing if submitted anonymously, by a third party (e.g. a buyer) or is unreadable by our AI. The statement will eventually appear after automated and manual checks.
4) Companies sometimes have multiple websites and only link to their statement on one of them. The statutory guidance stipulates that links to modern slavery statements should be on all corporate sites, in the spirit of transparency, however many do not observe this aspect of the guidance notes. TISCreport bots will eventually uncover more of these sites, but in the mean time, the system asks for this information via email or twitter in order to maintain complete records. Our buyer members are also an important part of this transparency process, by asking their suppliers to share the information needed to confirm their compliance and their transparency credentials.