Today we are proud to publish our sixth Modern Slavery Statement
Our Modern Slavery Statement is a core element of our responsibilities in the area of Human Rights and Modern Slavery. The Statement helps to hold us accountable to our commitments and keep track of our progress.
What is modern slavery?
Modern slavery refers to institutional slavery that continues to exist in present day society. Modern slavery refers to situations where one person has taken away another person’s freedom so they can be exploited. Freedom is taken away using threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power and/or deception, resulting in a person being unable to refuse or leave the situation. Modern slavery is one of the most serious violations of human rights.
What is a Modern Slavery Statement?
A Modern Slavery Statement is a document that identifies and addresses the risks of modern slavery practices in an organisation’s operations and supply chain. In the international education industry, there are several points in a student’s journey where they could become vulnerable to modern slavery or human trafficking. Publishing a statement is a legislated requirement in the UK and Australia.
Why is a Modern Slavery Statement important for Navitas?
Human Rights and Modern Slavery is one of our twelve priority Impact areas. Our Impact initiative drives forward our ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) policies at Navitas, and is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We look at our impact through three lenses: as an educator, an employer, and a global citizen.
Within these three lenses are our twelve priority Impact areas. Our goal is to understand, measure, and improve the impact we create in our changing world. We take our responsibilities as an educator, an employer, and a global citizen seriously.
When it comes to modern slavery prevention and eradication, our commitment is to actively identify and mitigate potential modern slavery risks to students, our supply chain, the workforce and our partnerships; to comply with all relevant laws; and, to educate our communities.
What did we achieve in 2025?
We are proud to see progress across many of our risk areas. In 2025 we:
- assessed our SAE audiovisual equipment for modern slavery risk
- starting work creating agent awareness training
- launched our Donesafe platform for modern slavery reporting, and included links to it across navitas.com and college and campus websites
- launched mandatory modern slavery for staff in student-facing roles
- developed a modern slavery checklist to assist when screening suppliers.
Want to learn more?
Visit our Human Rights and Modern Slavery page.