Software · modern slavery, buyer’s shortlist
Modern slavery software: a UK buyer’s shortlist
Modern slavery software gathers supplier risk evidence through the year and supports the annual statement section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires.
This page names platforms in their owners’ own words, gives the demo questions, and sets out when a spreadsheet is still enough.
What the statement can cover is on modern slavery reporting software.
What the software does
What does modern slavery software do between statements?
It keeps the supplier evidence that the statement summarises once a year.
Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 asks for a statement of the steps taken in the financial year, so the evidence has to exist before the statement is written.
The £36 million threshold is set in SI 2015/1833, not in the Act, and counts the turnover of subsidiaries.
The Home Office guidance says an organisation does not have to guarantee its whole supply chain is slavery free, under §5.1 of the practical guide, which makes the record of steps the thing that matters.
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Map
Suppliers by tier, country and sector.
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Assess
Questionnaires, audits and worker voice.
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Remediate
Findings tracked to closure, with dates.
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Publish
A board-approved statement on the homepage.
Website and registry
Does modern slavery software need to file on the government registry?
No: section 54 requires website publication, not registry filing.
The government’s guidance says “We encourage you to add your most recent modern slavery statement to the modern slavery statement registry”, and the registry’s summary questions beyond the basics are optional.
A useful tool drafts the registry answers from the same evidence as the statement, so the two never disagree.
Enforcement is by injunction under section 54(11), so the real exposure is to buyers and investors who read the statement.
Before you sign
Which questions should you put to a modern slavery platform?
Each question beside this names the rule it comes from and what a passing answer looks like.
Bring one real high-risk supplier, because demonstration data rarely carries a remediation that took six months.
The statement-content questions are on modern slavery reporting software.
Nothing here is a rating, ranking or recommendation.
Modern slavery demo questions · tick the ones you need
The pass tests are our reading of the cited provisions.
Nothing you tick is stored or sent.
The platforms
Which platforms say they do supplier and human-rights work, in their own words?
| Platform | What it says it does, in its own words | Published price |
|---|---|---|
| Diginex | Diginex describes carbon accounting, sustainability reporting, supply chain, human rights monitoring and ESG investor intelligence for asset managers, banks and companies. | Enterprise level · TBD |
From this site’s vendor registry: the owner’s own description, read 11 October 2026.
| Platform | What its owner says |
|---|---|
| Exiger | Supply-chain products supporting multi-tier supplier identification and mapping, risk and disruption monitoring, and sustainability-performance visibility. |
| Intertek Inlight | A web-based supplier-data platform for mapping supplier tiers, assessing risk through data and questionnaires, verification, corrective-action plans, analytics and reporting. |
| LRQA EiQ | A supply-chain risk and sustainability due-diligence platform combining audit data, supplier and incident monitoring and regulatory information. |
Each owner describes a clear supplier-risk focus, which makes it easy to match a platform to the depth of supply chain you have.
Match the depth
Direct suppliers only
Match the depth
Tier 2 and beyond
Spreadsheet or software
When is a spreadsheet enough for modern slavery evidence?
An organisation with a short list of direct suppliers in lower-risk sectors can keep its evidence in a spreadsheet and a shared folder.
The case for a platform grows with tiers, countries, audits and open remediations.
The calculator beside this compares the hours your current process takes with any quote you hold; it names no price of its own.
Platform against the way you work now
Current process £0 a year · quote £0 a year
Fill in all three to see the break-even hours.
Arithmetic on your own inputs.
The quote’s implementation, uplift and exit terms are in the three-year worksheet on the carbon reporting software page.
Nothing is stored or sent.
Getting it running
What does the first year with modern slavery software look like?
Load the supplier list with spend, country and sector before configuring any questionnaire.
Start evidence-gathering where risk and spend meet, rather than sending one questionnaire to everyone.
Record remediation as it happens, because the statement describes steps taken in the year.
Leave time for board approval before the statement is due on the website.
First reporting year
Load suppliers
First reporting year
Rank by risk
First reporting year
Gather evidence
For the board
The statement is one page and the evidence is the year behind it
Pick the tool that makes the evidence easy to keep, not the one that makes the statement look longest.
Takeaways
Modern slavery software in five facts
| Fact | What to do |
|---|---|
| The threshold is £36 million, including subsidiaries | Test the group calculation in the demo |
| Section 54(5) content is optional | File evidence by topic, without treating topics as boxes to fill |
| Audits should not be relied upon alone | Shortlist tools that hold worker-voice evidence too |
| The registry is encouraged, not required | Draft registry answers from the statement’s own evidence |
| No law requires software | Run the spreadsheet comparison first |
Next: read the modern slavery reporting requirements to confirm your organisation is in scope.
Frequently asked
Modern slavery software, answered
What is modern slavery software?
Software that gathers supplier risk data, audit results, worker-voice evidence and remediation through the year, and helps an organisation write its annual slavery and human trafficking statement under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
The sibling guide on modern slavery reporting software covers what the statement can contain; this page is the shortlist.
Which modern slavery software is best?
This site has tested no product and names no best.
The platforms named here describe their own supplier-risk and human-rights work clearly; shortlist by the job you need, then run the demo questions on your own suppliers.
Who needs modern slavery software?
No one is required to buy software.
The statement duty falls on a commercial organisation that supplies goods or services and has total turnover of £36 million or more, including subsidiaries.
Software earns its place when the supplier base is large or the evidence is scattered.
Do I have to submit my statement to the government registry?
Section 54 contains no duty to file on a registry: it requires publication on the website with a link from the homepage.
The government encourages organisations to add their statement to the modern slavery statement registry.
Is there a fine for not publishing a modern slavery statement?
No. The duty is enforceable by the Secretary of State through civil proceedings in the High Court for an injunction, under section 54(11).
Does the statement have to cover six topics?
No. Section 54(5) says the statement may include information about structure, policies, due diligence, risk, effectiveness and training.
Most readers expect them, so a tool that files evidence by topic is useful, but they are not mandatory.
Are social audits enough?
The Home Office statutory guidance says audits should not be relied upon alone and should be supplemented with worker-centred practices.
No UK law requires a SMETA audit or an EcoVadis rating.
Can modern slavery software help with CSDDD?
Some of the same evidence helps, but CSDDD is a separate EU regime with its own scope and timing; it is covered on CSDDD software.
What personal data does modern slavery software hold?
Often worker interviews, grievances and supplier contacts.
Under UK GDPR Article 28, the processor contract must say the data is deleted or returned at the end of the service.
Can a spreadsheet do this?
For a short list of direct suppliers in lower-risk sectors, yes.
A platform helps when there are many suppliers, several tiers, recurring audits and remediation to track.
Does the software write the statement?
It can draft from the evidence, but the statement must be approved by the board and signed by a director, or the equivalent for partnerships, under section 54(6).
Sources
Primary sources
Every figure, date and status on this page traces to the instrument’s owner.
Secondary commentary is never the source for a number.
- legislation.gov.ukModern Slavery Act 2015, section 54
The duty, the “may include” list, website publication and enforcement by injunction.
- legislation.gov.ukModern Slavery Act 2015
The Act as a whole.
- legislation.gov.ukSI 2015/1833, Transparency in Supply Chains Regulations, regs 2 and 3
The £36 million threshold, including subsidiaries.
- Home OfficeTransparency in supply chains: a practical guide (accessible), §§4.4 and 5.1
Statutory guidance: audits should not be relied upon alone.
- Home OfficeTransparency in supply chains: guidance collection
Updated 1 December 2025.
- Home OfficePublish an annual modern slavery statement
Who must publish; the registry is encouraged.
- Home OfficeModern slavery statement registry
Where organisations can add their statement.
- ExigerSupply chain risk management
The owner’s description of multi-tier supplier mapping and monitoring.
- IntertekInlight
The owner’s description of a supplier-data and risk platform.
- LRQAEiQ
The owner’s description of supply-chain risk and due-diligence intelligence.
- DiginexDiginex
The owner’s description, including human rights monitoring.
- SedexSMETA audit
A social audit methodology; not required by UK law.
- Ethical Trading InitiativeETI Base Code
A labour standard many supplier codes draw on.
- EUR-LexDirective (EU) 2024/1760 (CSDDD), consolidated
The separate EU due-diligence regime.
- legislation.gov.ukUK GDPR, Article 28
The processor contract for a platform holding worker or supplier personal data.