No. We are not a part of the Home Office. We were referred to in the Home Office letter last October to over 17k CEOs asking them to comply with Section 54 but we are a completely independent B-Corp Social Enterprise. We report and represent our members via the Home Office Transparency in Supply Chains Modern Slavery Strategy and Implementation Group in order to help inform policy and strategy going forward.  Our Transparency in Supply Chains register TISCreport brings together open data, closed data and shared data on non-financial due diligence and supply chain risks. Our data is used in procurement decisions by over 350 local government bodies and several hundred thousand companies.
As such, our automated audit results will not influence the Home Office audit one way or the other. However, we have communicated frequently with Home Office Modern Slavery Unit, clarifying many of the criteria that have been causing confusion amongst companies, and have implemented our algorithm accordingly. This increases the likelihood of your compliance statement satisfying the expected criteria.