TISCreport
TISCreport.org is an online Open Data Transparency In Supply Chains platform set up to monitor corporate compliance with Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. It was created by Stuart Gallemore, Jaya Chakrabarti, directors of the B Corp social enterprise Semantrica Ltd [1] with their team, and launched on the 1st April 2016, the date announced at the UK Home Office by the then Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland as the point from which companies in scope needed to comply. It shares compliance and accreditation data of companies under the share-alike attribution Open Database License. Additionally it shares more sensitive data sets via dashboards under different licenses depending on source, which includes potential non-compliance of suppliers.
The site also monitors the supply chains of companies and organisations either in scope of Section 54 or using data within the platform to assess compliance for procurement purposes. It uses data from many sources including Companies House, OpenCorporates, multiple registers and data from the Government Digital Service Registers team, Wikipedia and Wikidata. It also aggregates compliance data from corporate members and from corporate websites.
TISCreport has three levels of governance. The overarching Governance Board guides TISCreport on policy, practice and principles, and to ensure that TISCreport remains true to its central mission of bringing corporate transparency to bear on human rights and more broadly, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Data Strategy Board exists to advise TISCreport on its data strategy, to ensure that data being created or curated is fit for purpose in achieving the mission. The Business Advisory Board exists to connect industry sector bodies with corporate transparency data.
TISCreport regularly reports to the Home Office Modern Slavery Strategy and Implementation Group board on compliance statistics and trends in order to inform policy. In 2019 it controversially published a list of the 8.7% of organisations that had satisfied the minimum compliance criteria listed in the Home Office Statutory Guidance for Section 54[2].
Data Sets
To date TISCreport holds records of non-financial data sets including:
- California Transparency in Supply Chains Act Compliance
- Section 54 UK Modern Slavery Act compliance
- Conflict Mineral Statements
- Payment Practices and Performance Regulations Reporting 2017
- Section 172(1) Reports (Miscellaneous Reporting Regulations 2018)
- Gender Pay Gap Reports
- Tier 1 suppliers shared by public, private and voluntary organisations
- Social Enterprise status
- Real Living Wage accreditation
- Illegal Phoenixing indicators
- Director risk index
- Cyber-risks data sets
- Food standard agency accreditations
Recognition
In the year of launch, 2016, Baroness Martha Lane Fox said of TISCreport: "To tackle slavery we can't keep doing what we've always done. Only through collaboration, transparency and the power of technology can we innovate our way to a fairer world. I encourage all businesses to not only submit their statements to tiscreport.org, but to make the words count. Share the data that will help to ensure slavery has no place left to hide."
In 2017 TISCreport was chosen as the partner for Welsh Government to drive supply chain transparency through their public sector supply chains[3]. In their Code of Practice Welsh Government recommended the following: "We encourage all organisations to publish their statements on the Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC) register www.tiscreport.org free of charge for all public and small organisations."
TISCreport presented its inaugural annual compliance report for Section 54 in Westminster on 19th September 2017[4], to MPs, peers and industry leaders.
That same year, in October 2017, TISCreport was invited to give evidence to the Australian Government within their consultation for their own Modern Slavery Act, and subsequently specifically named in the recommendations to be consulted with and partnered to accelerate their own repository[5]. The platform was also cited in the UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner's own evidence to the Australian Government[6].
In 2019 TISCreport was cited as one of the exemplar case studies of the use of UK Government Digital Service registers in "The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons" [7]
Awards
TISCreport has been recognised with a number of nominations and awards, most recently these include:
- 2018: Computing Magazine’s Big Data Awards “Best Emerging Technology” Finalist[8]
- 2018: Anti-corruption tech finalist at the 2018 US Institute of Peace Cloud Tech awards
- 2019: Social Enterprise UK Finalist 2019, Buy Social - Market Builder[9]
- 2019: BCorpUK Best for the World 2019 Community[10] & Governance[11] Honouree
Citations and Quotes
TISCreport data has been quoted in numerous publications.
27/3/2020 Reuters: https://news.trust.org/item/20200326175619-peav8/
23/3/2020 Office of National Statistics "Modern Slavery in the UK" report: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/modernslaveryintheuk/march2020
23/10/19 The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/five-ways-to-work-out-if-a-company-is-serious-about-tackling-modern-slavery-125015
29/1/2018: Global Trade Magazine, https://www.globaltrademag.com/four-reasons-comply-latest-human-trafficking-regulations/
4/10/2017: The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/04/illegal-behaviour-uk-accused-of-failing-to-press-home-anti-slavery-law
Ongoing Research
TISCreport is the research platform for a number of different transparency-focused projects. In 2019 research was performed to identify indicators of illegal phoenixing in companies within the Companies House data sets using data held in TISCreport with the University of Bristol and with observers from HMRC.
In 2020 TISCreport has partnered with UKRI’s Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research (PaCCS) to analyse data on global supply chains (held by / accessible to TISC Report) to identify and understand indicators of potential criminal activity (corruption, money laundering, bribery, modern slavery)[12].
References
- ↑ "Semantrica Ltd | Certified B Corporation". bcorporation.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Compliance list aims to raise the bar on slavery reporting". Supply Management. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Ethical employment in supply chains: code of practice". GOV.WALES. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Tiscreport". ResponseSource Press Release Wire. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ corporateName=Commonwealth Parliament; address=Parliament House, Canberra. "List of Recommendations". www.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ Kevin, Hyland (October 2017). "Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Annual Report 2016 - 2017" (PDF). http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); External link in|website=(help) - ↑ "The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons". IDRC - International Development Research Centre. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Shortlist announced for 2018 Big Data Excellence Awards". Computing Magazine. 22/3/2018. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Ltd, Cloud Payments (2019-02-24). "2019 Shortlist »". 2019 Shortlist » Social Enterprise UK. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Best For The World: Community List | Certified B Corporation". bcorporation.net. Archived from the original on 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ "Best For The World: Governance List | Certified B Corporation". bcorporation.net. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ↑ Gorcsosova, Eva. "PaCCS Placement: TISC Report". PaCCS. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
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