Corporate responsibility

We recognise that we have a responsibility to respect and protect the environment. We promote environmental awareness among staff and our collective duty to minimise the environmental impact of our business operations. We seek to conserve energy and natural resources by minimising waste, recycling where possible and maximising our use of renewable resources.

Aligning to the Government’s Sustainable Procurement Action Plan, we: buy environmentally friendly consumables and appliances; review and report our CO2 emissions; and calculate our carbon footprint on an annual basis. We promote a car-share scheme in the UK and provide additional facilities throughout our offices to encourage staff to cycle to work. We also manage and report energy consumption, waste production and recycling across all of our offices.

We are committed to ensuring high standards of health, safety and welfare for our employees, contractors and others affected by the company's undertakings. We provide safe and healthy workplaces and practices for employees and the wider community, ensuring that our employees are given information, instruction, training and supervision as is reasonably necessary to enable safe and healthy performance of work activities.

All employees are encouraged to participate in the development of high levels of awareness and to help develop a positive culture of safety management.

We work in partnership with the National Crime Agency’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit (NCA-CEOP) to help prevent the abuse of children in the UK and abroad. Technology offers huge new opportunities to the younger generation, but it also leaves them vulnerable to cyber exploitation and attack. In the UK, the NCA-CEOP leads efforts to counter online child sexual abuse, safeguard victims and prosecute offenders.  Our role combines software engineering, data science and technical consulting. We focus on helping with operational tasks as well as providing:

•    Tactical support to live operations: specialist capabilities to assist investigators and analysts
•    Capability development: building solutions to improve performance and or efficiency
•    Technology horizon scanning: to support decision making around new capability requirements

We are fully committed to our strategic partnership with NCA-CEOP and look forward to developing this role in the future, to make an even greater contribution to protecting children and young people both in the UK and abroad.

In order to combat the major issue of online child abuse, a number of countries have set-up national organisations dedicated to the detection of illegal online content such as child abuse images. These organisations work together with communications service providers (CSPs), law enforcement agencies and governments to combat the availability of this illegal content. Many of these national organisations operate hotlines where members of the public can report websites, to produce lists of sites known to host illegal content on the internet.

One such organisation in the UK is the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), formed in 1996 following an agreement between the UK government, police and the internet service provider industry that a partnership approach was needed to tackle the distribution of child abuse images online. 

We are proud to support the Internet Watch Foundation in combating illegal content online.