This metric is about whether the company complied with the UK Modern Slavery Act requirement to link to their statement from the homepage of their website. To research this metric first navigate to the company's home page. This means companies provide either a direct link on the homepage, or an appropriately titled link in a drop-down menu on the homepage (for example, a direct link in a drop-down titled “Sustainability”).

If you are researching an international or UK-based company, first navigate to the company's UK home page. If you are researching an Australian company, look at their Australian site. A good starting point to researching this metric is to use a search engine to search for the company name, click through to the company's website, and perform a search on this page (ctrl+f) for terms like “MSA” or "slavery".

You will probably need to add a new source representing the homepage, so click the "Add a new source" button and enter the company's homepage URL as the new source or save the page as a PDF and add as a file.

If a link to the company's Modern Slavery Act statement appears on the homepage of their website, a value of "Yes" should be added, and it should cite the homepage URL as the source. If no mention of the Modern Slavery Act statement can be found on the company's homepage or in a drop-down menu, a "No" value should be added, and it should cite the URL of the homepage where you looked for the statement as it's source.

Some companies have a separate "corporate" website (e.g. btplc.com is the corporate site of BT Group), if this is the case then placement on the homepage of this site counts for a "Yes" value.

When adding a "Yes" value, please include a short comment explaining where you found the link.

* Note on choosing the Year of your answer

When researching this metric the "Year" field should be set to the reporting year of the statement.

Read the MSA Statement carefully to find out what year it covers.

When a statement is referring to a Financial Year (FY) ending in Q1 or early Q2, it should be labeled with the previous year. Example:

• Statement for FY2018/19 ending in April 2019 = 2018

• Statement for FY2018/19 ending in May 2019 (or later) = 2019