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Kingfisher Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement 2024/25


Introduction


Suppliers & customer offer


Governance


Policies


Risk assessment


Working with suppliers GFR


Working with suppliers GNFR


Going beyond audit


Whistleblowing & escalation


Employee training


Partnership & collaboration


Looking to the future


Ethical compliance process


Our ethical compliance process is the same for both sites producing OEB or non-OEB products above a spend threshold of £50,000.


Registration to platform


The supplier registers with a collaborative platform such as Sedex, amfori BSCI or EcoVadis and follows online instructions. In the case of Sedex, this involves the completion of a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ).


Risk categorisation


Kingfisher O&S Ethical Compliance team or, where applicable, the banner Sustainability team then carry out a risk assessment of the production sites, delivering a risk rating of either low or high risk based on several criteria including the site’s location and the type of products manufactured.


Risk assessment


Low-risk sites registered on Sedex will need to finalise the SAQ, accept the link on their Sedex account and update their information annually. For suppliers registered on EcoVadis, there are no additional requirements.


High-risk sites must follow the process shown to the right.


Ethical compliance audit requirements (for all sites categorised as high risk)


Audit completion


New audits must be semi- announced SMETA 4 Pillar or amfori BSCI (exceptions apply1


) and conducted by


an APSCA (Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors) audit company.


If a supplier has already had an ethical audit conducted prior to our request, Kingfisher may accept this if it uses a standard which Kingfisher recognises as equivalent.


Review findings


Audit reports may come back with non-conformances2 and these are graded from business critical through to observation.3


Where there is a serious risk to people or the environment (deemed business critical), new and existing orders are blocked until the non- conformances are resolved.


If four or more critical non- conformances are identified, the audit is escalated to business critical.


Action plan/ remediation


Sites must work with Kingfisher to develop a clear and measurable Corrective Action Plan (CAP) which must be put into action immediately.


A non-conformance can be closed once the corrective action has been verified by the auditor. This may be done remotely, e.g. through photographic evidence or documents provided via email, or through an onsite follow-up audit, e.g. to review pay records.


1 If a supplier has an existing ethical audit from the following list of audit standards it may be accepted: SA8000 – Social Accountability 8000, FLA – Fair Labour Association, ICTI – International Council for Toy Industries, Intertek Workplace Conditions Assessment (WCA) Report, MPS-SQ (must have the SQ component), RBA – Responsible Business Alliance, Global Gap GRASP.


2 A non-conformance refers to not meeting specified standards or expectations, often detected by internal audits or inspections. A non-compliance is a confirmed breach of a local, national, or international law or the ETI (Ethical Trade Initiative) base code.


3 ‘Business critical’ applies to situations that pose the most serious risk to people and our planet, like child labour and circumstances where workers or the environment are in imminent danger. ‘Critical’ refers to a systemic, deliberate, or severe breach of the audit code or local law which represents a danger to workers or others, or which denies a basic human right, or an attempt to pervert the course of the audit. ‘Major’ relates to a systemic breach of the audit code or local law that could present a danger to workers or violate a human right. ‘Minor’ refers to an isolated breach of the audit code or local law which represents low risk to workers or a policy issue. ‘Observation’ is a practice which does not break the law or standard but, if not corrected, could lead to a non-conformance.


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