Modern Slavery Statement 2025

We take our obligations in relation to the identification, reporting and prevention of modern slavery and human trafficking seriously and we are committed to conducting our business to the highest standards of professionalism, ethical behaviour, and integrity.  In an increasingly global marketplace, we believe that businesses have a responsibility to understand whether modern slavery and human trafficking is taking place within its supply chains or in any part of its business, and we expect our suppliers, clients and business partners to comply with the same high standards that we do.

Knights Group Holdings plc is listed on the Alternative Investment Market and registered in England and Wales. We are a professional services business with 32 offices throughout the UK, and we are continually expanding into new regional markets. 

Knights Group Holdings plc’s subsidiary, Knights Professional Services Limited, provides a full range of legal and professional services to individual and business clients across many sectors.  Legal professionals are required to monitor for signs of modern slavery, including risky international transactions, unexplained funds, and negative media on clients or associates and we are continually evolving our client and matter risk assessments to ensure that our colleagues remain vigilant to these issues. In addition, we require all colleagues to complete annual training to ensure that everyone knows who they should report such issues to.

We predominantly employ highly skilled professionals who are strictly regulated by professional regulatory bodies, and our ongoing assessment is that there is a low risk of slavery or human trafficking occurring within our own business.  The business is supported by centralised operational functions, namely Brand and Communications, Finance, HR, IT, Facilities, Office Services, Hospitality & Events, Records and Legal & Compliance. 

We are a collaborative team-based business which is meritocratic and has a strong, diverse and inclusive culture.  By listening to our people, we continually evolve how we look after the health and wellbeing of our employees and support their careers. In the year, we conducted a full salary review and throughout the year we engaged in a programme of workshops and  social activities, bringing our colleagues together and focusing on personal development and wellbeing. We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and strive to ensure that we are always improving our employee offering. We have a strong commitment to fostering an inclusive, equitable, meritocratic environment, and we are proud to have received a score of +59 (with scores in excess of +30 being generally considered to be excellent) within our employee NPS survey which measures loyalty and colleague engagement

Alongside our trainee programme, we operate an apprenticeship programme which is key to attracting and developing new talent throughout our business. We also provide ongoing training and other opportunities to all our staff to allow them to develop their careers, achieve their ambitions, and enhance their future earning potential.

Our supply chain includes the procurement of products and services to support the provision of professional services, such as cleaning services, office design and fit-out, facilities management, maintenance services, some outsourced business process services, real estate, recruitment and employment agencies and the purchase or licensing of goods, including office furniture, supplies and IT software and equipment.

We also work with other professional service providers such as barristers, medical experts, financial advisors, court services and enforcement, tracing agents, surveyors, planning and environmental consultants, insurance companies and brokers. 

Most of our supply chain is located within the UK, with many of our suppliers being large companies with operations in the UK who are required to adhere to their own modern slavery compliance obligations.  We are committed to maintaining responsible relationships with our suppliers and partners, who may, at our request, be required to provide evidence of compliance with our policies, procedures, and applicable laws during a tendering and retendering process and throughout the lifecycle of our contracts with them.

We are committed to ensuring none of our suppliers engage in human trafficking or modern slavery and have a range of policies which underpin this commitment:

Anti-slavery: our employees are required to adhere to our anti-slavery policy, which is available to everyone.  Our suppliers are also expected to adhere to the standards set out in our supplier code of conduct which requires compliance with our anti-slavery policy.  Wherever necessary, we work with our suppliers to raise awareness and maintain compliance with the Act.

Equality and diversity: as an inclusive employer, this policy emphasises our commitment to promoting equality and diversity by seeking to ensure that everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect, recognising, and encouraging individual contribution within our business.

We do not discriminate against employees, applicants for employment, other workers, clients or service providers on the basis of race or racial group, nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, religion or belief, age or disability. Senior employees are also required to undertake equality and diversity training.

Whistleblowing: if any of our people have any concerns about our suppliers or their supply chains or about any other wrongdoing or breaches of law, they are encouraged to raise these concerns to their manager, or in confidence using our whistleblowing process without fear of any detrimental treatment.

We have a programme of continuous review of all our suppliers to ensure those contractual arrangements with potential modern slavery risks are managed centrally. 

We continue to assess supplier relationships we inherit through acquisitions we make, selecting those with which we wish to continue to work with and terminating those contracts which duplicate services already provided by our existing suppliers to streamline our supply chain and further reduce the risk of modern slavery within it.

We outsource our requirements for property services, facilities management and maintenance to a UK national corporate.  We mitigate the risks associated with this by ensuring our outsourced provider conducts a series of checks requiring its sub-contractors to become “Qualified Contractors” before they can become part of our supply chain.

Contractual terms prohibiting modern slavery are implemented on a risk-based approach for all new suppliers, and on renewal of existing supplier contracts. We also include a right to audit our suppliers where appropriate.

Our working practices encourage respect and the upholding of human rights for everyone who works with, or within our business.  We have taken the following steps over the last 12 months to identify and mitigate potential risks of modern slavery or human trafficking within our business and our supply chain:

• We continued to assess the modern slavery risk posed to our business and made changes to our strategy where appropriate.
• We use an outsourced provider, based in India for some limited administration services and during the year we have visited their premises to conduct an audit of their processes and procedures
• We are continuing the consolidation of our arrangements in respect of our storage and archiving requirements, again reducing the risk of modern slavery within our supply chain.
• We have evolved our client onboarding process and risk assessments which will assist in the identification of modern slavery risks within our client base.
• We continue to provide mandatory training annually for all our people on modern slavery risks, and course completion is monitored on our online training platform and by our Legal & Compliance team.

This statement has been approved by the Board of Knights Group Holdings plc and its subsidiaries on 30^th September 2025 and is signed on their behalf by:

David Beech

Chief Executive Officer