Modern Slavery Statement

Solusec Ltd · Company No. 13352754 · Approved: 26 September 2026 · Next review: 30 September 2027

Plain English summary: Solusec is below the turnover threshold at which the Modern Slavery Act requires a statement, so this one is voluntary. We publish it because clients and tenders ask for it, and because a small firm with a short supply chain can give a straighter answer than a long one. We do not manufacture anything, we do not use labour agencies, and we engage the people who do our work directly and on written terms.

1 Status of this statement

Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires a slavery and human trafficking statement from commercial organisations with a total annual turnover of £36 million or more. Solusec Ltd is well below that threshold, so we are not required to publish one. This statement is made voluntarily.

We publish it for two reasons. Public sector and enterprise procurement routinely asks for one regardless of size, and answering with a real document rather than a promise to write one saves everybody time. And a business of our size can say something specific and checkable, where a large organisation often cannot.

We have written it to the structure that the amendments proposed to the Act in June 2026 would require if they become law, covering organisational structure, risk assessment, policies, training and effectiveness. Those amendments sit in the Immigration and Asylum Bill and are not law at the time of writing.

2 Our structure and business

Solusec Ltd is a cyber security consultancy registered in England and Wales, company number 13352754, based at The Red House, Albrighton, Wolverhampton WV7 3LU. We provide penetration testing and we are an appointed Certification Body for Cyber Essentials, IASME Cyber Assurance and Defence Cyber Certification Level 0.

The work is carried out by the founder, Daly Whyte, and by a small number of senior consultants engaged directly, with Daly overseeing every engagement. We have no overseas operations, no manufacturing, no warehousing and no physical distribution. Almost everything we deliver is a person doing expert work and writing it down.

3 Our supply chain

Being specific about this is more useful than a general assurance, so here is the whole of it.

Senior consultants. A small number of experienced UK-based specialists, engaged directly by us on written terms. We do not use labour agencies, umbrella companies or offshore delivery centres.
Software and cloud services. Mainstream vendors, principally Microsoft, bought on standard commercial terms.
IT hardware. Laptops and peripherals bought from established UK resellers and manufacturers.
Professional services. Accountancy, insurance and certification body licensing, all UK-based.
Premises. A single UK office.

We do not subcontract delivery to organisations whose own labour practices we cannot see.

4 Where the risk actually sits

We assess our overall exposure to modern slavery and human trafficking as low, and we think it is worth saying why rather than simply asserting it. Our labour is small in number, highly skilled, UK-based, engaged directly and paid well above minimum wage. The recognised high-risk patterns, which are large low-skilled workforces, agency and gangmaster labour, seasonal work and opaque tiers of subcontracting, are not present in how we operate.

Low is not nil. The one part of our chain we cannot see to the bottom of is hardware manufacture, where electronics supply chains are long, largely overseas and known to carry real risk. We buy too little to influence a manufacturer, and we are not going to claim otherwise. What we can do is buy from established suppliers who publish their own statements and are subject to the reporting duty themselves, and that is what we do.

5 Policies and practice

We engage everyone who does work for us directly and on written terms that set out scope, rate and payment timescales before work begins.
We pay the people who work for us at professional consultancy rates, substantially above the National Living Wage.
We never charge any fee to a worker, consultant or candidate for work, for being considered for work, or for equipment.
We carry out right to work checks where we engage individuals, and we keep the records.
We do not hold anyone's identity documents.
We do not use unpaid internships or unpaid trial work.
Anyone working with us is free to work for others and to decline work without penalty.

6 Due diligence

Proportionate to our size, our due diligence is this. New consultants are people we know professionally or who come through a trusted introduction, and we contract with them as individuals or with their own limited company, directly. New suppliers of any material size are checked for a published modern slavery statement where the duty applies to them. Where a client's own procurement imposes supply chain requirements on us, we pass those requirements through to anyone working on that engagement.

We do not conduct supplier audits or site visits. At our scale that would be theatre rather than assurance, and we would rather tell you what we do than describe a programme we do not run.

7 Training and awareness

Everyone who works for us is briefed on the indicators of modern slavery and labour exploitation and on how to report a concern, as part of engagement onboarding. Given the number of people involved, this is a conversation and a written briefing rather than a course, and it is refreshed annually alongside this statement.

8 Measuring effectiveness

Meaningful metrics are hard to produce honestly at this size, and a table of percentages drawn from a handful of engagements would be noise presented as evidence. The measures we do track, and will report against in future versions of this statement, are these.

Number of consultants engaged, and the proportion contracted directly rather than through an intermediary. Our target is all of them.
Number of concerns raised, and what happened. To date: none raised.
Suppliers of material size reviewed for a published statement at onboarding.
Whether this statement was reviewed and approved within the year.

9 Raising a concern

Anyone, including consultants, clients, suppliers and members of the public, can raise a concern about modern slavery or labour exploitation connected with our business by emailing info@solusec.co.uk, marked for the attention of the Director. Concerns can be raised anonymously and will not disadvantage anyone who raises them.

Where there is an immediate risk to someone's safety, contact the police on 999. The Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline can be reached on 08000 121 700.

10 Approval and review

This statement was approved by the board of Solusec Ltd on 26 September 2026 and signed by Daly Whyte, Director. It is reviewed annually, and next by 30 September 2027.

If you are assessing us as a supplier and need this in a particular format, or need a signed copy on letterhead, email info@solusec.co.uk and we will send one the same day.