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Public alignment statement

BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard

Episodic ICCE recognises BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard, Issue 2.0 as a structured legacy ethical-labour sourcing reference point for organisational governance, management systems, human resources, procurement, supply-chain visibility, worker voice, remediation, audit and reporting. The standard remains useful as a historical ethical-labour framework and comparison point for modern responsible-procurement, modern-slavery, social-value and company-assurance expectations.

Those expectations are practical and evidence-led. For temporary labour activity, they create a need for reliable records showing who was engaged, through which route, under what employment and payroll treatment, what hours and payment outcomes arose, which counterparties were involved, where disputes, grievances, corrections, gaps or remediation occurred, and what audit lineage supports the resulting ethical-labour narrative.

ICCE aligns with those expectations as a Collaborative Procurement-Support Provider for ICCE-routed temporary-labour activity. It supports authorised buyers, suppliers, contractors, procurement teams, framework providers, contract managers, responsible-procurement functions, ethical-labour leads and auditors by preserving controlled labour-chain evidence relevant to engagement route, PAYE employment route, worker acceptance, hours, disputes, payroll, worker-facing artefacts, payment, correction, counterparty attribution, supply-chain visibility, grievances, exceptions, remediation, external policy references, action-plan references and audit lineage. ICCE does not claim BES 6002 verification, does not calculate a BES 6002 maturity level, does not issue a Statement of Verification, does not establish the absence of exploitation, and does not determine whether any organisation historically or currently satisfies the standard.

Episodic maintains a continued alignment commitment by reviewing this statement where BES 6002 is reactivated, replaced, clarified, withdrawn or superseded, where current ethical-labour or modern-slavery frameworks materially change, or where UMS-505 procurement-support outputs or ICCE-routed evidence controls are amended, replaced, superseded or materially clarified.

Alignment table

Expectation Relevant sources ICCE enforced alignment ICCE evidence / output
Legacy-source and verification boundary Historical verification method; baseline requirements; Level 1–4 maturity pathway; five improvement objectives; 11-month reassessment position ICCE preserves BES 6002 as a legacy alignment source and prevents public wording from implying current verification, maturity scoring, BRE approval or Statement of Verification status Legacy-source statement, no-verification statement, no-maturity-score statement, improvement-objective boundary
Organisational structure and accountability evidence Issue Area 1 - Organisation Structure; principle: Ethics ICCE preserves role, user, counterparty, approval, escalation and action evidence within ICCE-routed activity while keeping corporate governance and senior accountability external Role and responsibility record, action chronology, escalation evidence, external owner reference
Management policies Issue Area 2 - Management Policies; principles: Ethics; Legal compliance; Fundamental rights at work ICCE preserves external policy references, approvals, versions, review dates and acknowledgements where supplied, while keeping policy authorship, approval, training and corporate adoption external Policy reference, version and review record, acknowledgement evidence, missing or expired policy state
Management systems and continual improvement Issue Area 3 - Management Systems; principles: Management systems; Employment and skills; Financial stability ICCE provides controlled labour-process evidence, risk states, exception records, corrective actions, reporting periods and target references capable of supporting an organisation’s wider ethical-labour management system Performance summary, metric output, exception record, corrective-action history, target and limitation statement
Assurance, compliance and auditing Issue Area 4 - Assurance, Compliance and Auditing; principles: Complaints and prosecutions; Human-rights due diligence ICCE preserves audit-ready worker, payroll, supply-chain, grievance, exception, correction and remediation evidence without becoming an independent audit or legal-compliance conclusion Audit evidence pack, source manifest, grievance record, remediation chronology, external audit reference
Human resources and worker outcomes Issue Area 5 - Human Resources; principles: Fundamental rights at work; Employment and skills; Discrimination ICCE preserves PAYE route, worker acceptance, hours, payroll, worker-facing artefacts, payment, dispute and correction evidence while keeping wider HR policy, recruitment, equality and human-rights conclusions external Engagement-route evidence, worker outcome evidence, payroll artefact, payment record, dispute and correction chronology
Immigration and right-to-work evidence Issue Area 6 - Immigration; principle: Legal compliance ICCE preserves externally authorised right-to-work, identity, expiry, restriction and review references where supplied, while statutory checking and immigration status remain with responsible external parties External eligibility reference, expiry tracker, restriction record, missing-evidence state, authority-boundary statement
Ethical procurement Issue Area 7 - Procurement; principles: Supply-chain management; Ethics; Legal compliance ICCE preserves counterparty onboarding, labour-route evidence, supplier attribution, external code or clause references, contract-selected KPIs, exceptions and corrective actions without acting as procurer or supplier selector Responsible-procurement evidence pack, contract KPI output, counterparty record, clause reference, remediation evidence
Supply-chain management Issue Area 8 - Supply Chain Management; principles: Supply-chain management; Human-rights due diligence; Local communities ICCE preserves recognised engager, agency, counterparty, worker, contract-context, chain-coverage, change, gap and remediation evidence for ICCE-routed temporary labour Supply-chain visibility pack, chain-coverage statement, known-gap record, counterparty status, remediation chronology
Bribery, corruption and restricted evidence Issue Area 9 - Bribery and Corruption; principles: Ethics; Complaints and prosecutions ICCE preserves access, approval, transaction, exception and external allegation or investigation references under controlled access, without inferring bribery, fraud or corruption Access and approval log, exception record, external investigation reference, restricted evidence record
Learning and development Issue Area 10 - Learning and Development; principles: Employment and skills; Stakeholder engagement ICCE preserves externally verified training, role, completion, expiry and refresher references where supplied, while substantive ethical-labour, human-rights, immigration and anti-bribery competence remains external Training reference, completion and expiry record, role linkage, overdue or unsupported training state
Forums, worker voice and stakeholder engagement Issue Area 11 - Forums; principles: Stakeholder engagement; Local communities; Discrimination ICCE provides authorised evidence views and may preserve forum, meeting, action or feedback references, while genuine worker representation, trade-union engagement, NGO participation and community dialogue remain external Shared evidence view, external forum reference, action record, feedback linkage, representation boundary
Ethical-labour reporting and transparency Issue Area 12 - Reporting; principles: Legal compliance; Financial stability; Health and safety ICCE preserves factual worker, payroll, supply-chain, KPI, grievance, remediation and audit evidence capable of supporting organisational reporting, without becoming a modern-slavery statement or independent assurance report Reporting evidence pack, metric and coverage output, unsupported-domain statement, release and reproducibility record
No absence, zero-risk or ethical-certification claim All 13 ethical-labour principles: Ethics; Legal compliance; Human-rights due diligence; Management systems; Supply-chain management; Stakeholder engagement; Complaints and prosecutions; Fundamental rights at work; Health and safety; Employment and skills; Local communities; Financial stability; Discrimination ICCE maintains that risk-relevant evidence supports external review but does not prove absence of exploitation, certify ethical labour, identify victims, establish legal compliance or verify the organisation No-absence statement, no-certification statement, human-rights boundary, legacy-source public wording control

Sources covered

Principal legacy source

Historical verification and improvement context covered

BES 6002 issue areas covered

Ethical-labour principles covered

Related current-source context covered

Core legacy-source boundary covered

Publisher
Augscape Research & Development Limited, trading through the Episodic ICCE documentation surface.

Company number
12996074

Website
episodic.co.uk

Document status
Public alignment statement · 2.1

Publication date
10 July 2026

Use boundary
General information only. Not legal, tax, financial, insurance, employment or investment advice.