Modern slavery and human trafficking statement
Financial year ended 31 August 2025
Our commitment
We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to doing what we reasonably can to ensure modern slavery and human trafficking play no part in our business or supply chains, and we expect the same standards of conduct from our people and the suppliers we work with. Although we fall below the threshold for a mandatory statement under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we have chosen to set out our position voluntarily. We believe everyone in the organisation has a duty to be alert to risks, however small, to report concerns, and to expect management to act on them.
About our business and supply chains
Lexacom was founded over 25 years ago and now provides an integrated platform that brings together workflow management, ambient AI, speech recognition and digital dictation, supporting more than 25,000 clinicians and reducing administrative burden, primarily across healthcare. We are based in, and employ all our staff in, the United Kingdom. While we serve customers internationally, including in the United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, we have no suppliers or employees of our own in those territories. Where we serve customers in a given country, our software is hosted on Microsoft Azure within that customer’s own country or region; this infrastructure is provided and operated by Microsoft, our cloud supplier, and does not represent any operational presence of our own. Our supply chain is correspondingly short and predominantly UK based. It consists principally of cloud hosting and infrastructure services provided by Microsoft Azure, other software and technology vendors, professional services such as legal and accountancy, and the procurement of IT hardware and office goods.
Where risk arises and how we assess it
Our core software operations and our directly employed, UK based, salaried workforce carry very low inherent risk. We recognise that the more material, though still indirect, risk sits upstream, particularly in the global manufacture of IT hardware and electronics. We assess risk proportionately to our size and sector, focusing attention on this upstream exposure rather than spreading effort thinly across an otherwise low risk base.
How we work with suppliers
Supplier onboarding and review are managed through our ISO 9001 certified quality management system, which sets out documented processes for evaluating, approving and periodically reviewing the suppliers we work with. Within that framework we favour established, reputable suppliers who operate within recognised compliance and ethical sourcing frameworks, we make our expectations clear, and we reserve the right to require corrective action or to end a relationship where a supplier falls short. Where appropriate, we may ask suppliers to confirm their compliance with applicable modern slavery legislation or to share details of their own policies and controls.
Our policy and reporting route
This statement sets out our policy on modern slavery and human trafficking. We encourage anyone, staff, customers or business partners, to raise concerns about our activities or supply chains, and they can do so confidentially and without fear of reprisal by contacting their line manager or the Finance Director. Concerns are taken seriously and acted upon.
Training and awareness
We provide modern slavery awareness training to relevant staff, particularly those involved in procurement and supplier management, so they can recognise and report concerns.
Measuring our effectiveness
Proportionate to our size and risk profile, we measure progress in several ways. We expect relevant staff to undertake modern slavery awareness training, and we maintain our documented supplier and training processes under our ISO 9001 certified quality management system, which is subject to external surveillance audits that give independent assurance those processes operate as documented. We monitor reports, supplier concerns and due diligence outcomes as indicators of effectiveness, while recognising that an absence of reported concerns does not in itself demonstrate an absence of risk. We will continue to develop these measures as the business grows.
Governance and responsibility
Operational responsibility for our modern slavery policy, supplier due diligence and staff training sits with our Senior Management Team, as part of our wider ISO 9001 certified quality management system. This statement is reviewed and approved by the Finance Director.
Looking ahead
We recognise the expectations our healthcare and public sector customers place on their supply chains, and we will keep our approach under review and strengthen it as appropriate as the business develops. This statement is reviewed and updated as necessary.
This statement has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors. For and on behalf of Aprobrium Limited t/a Lexacom:
G A Murton-Moore, Finance Director, 15 January 2026
