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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


Supplier engagement


We have an ongoing GFR supplier engagement programme and provide training to help suppliers build their knowledge and understanding of human rights issues and how to develop their approach to managing and mitigating human rights and modern slavery risks.


The Vendor Hub we created for new suppliers received approximately 1,500 views. The Ethical Compliance section of the Hub recorded 1,391 views, with 975 unique users engaging with the Ethical Compliance chapter. Additionally, the onboarding video was viewed 113 times.


Suppliers are sent an email as part of their onboarding process with a link to the Hub, which includes a film that showcases the broad benefits of being an ethical business such as stakeholder trust, employee retention and increased productivity. The six-minute video – which is available in six languages – provides information to support suppliers on their journey to achieving ethical compliance. It has been shared with our banners and Buying Offices, and our Sourcing colleagues have been asked to share it with suppliers and prospective production sites.


In addition to the film, factsheets explain Kingfisher’s ethical requirements, including our audit grading matrix, what a non-conformance is, how to resolve it,


timeframes, and the collaborative support available to our suppliers and sites.


The Hub includes a section on training, with access to videos on topics such as Sedex’s new audit methodology SMETA 7.0 and a bespoke training on audit non- compliances in Turkey.


We sponsor the Responsible Recruitment Toolkit developed by Stronger2gether (an industry collaboration) to provide free training and support to suppliers and labour providers. The toolkit provides good practice guidance, based on global standards, and includes a self-assessment process to help suppliers monitor and improve progress on responsible recruitment among their labour providers. We provide information about the toolkit to both GNFR and GFR suppliers.


Further examples of our supplier training include: Training


Salient audit issues in Turkey


Specific Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) webinar


Description of supplier training


Health & Safety issues, working hours, employer responsibilities, overtime.


Overview of the new regulations incoming (CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR) plus an explanation and reminder about our Ethical Policy and Wood and Paper Policy.


Supplier Convention


Training for our top suppliers on our CSR strategy and targets on our Ethical Policy, Wood and Paper Policy, SHP green star and Carbon roadmaps.


Responsible recruitment webinar


An introduction to responsible recruitment including relevant laws, requirements and best practices.


Training provider O&S and Impactt/Minerva BVR


Castorama France Quality team and Kingfisher France Head of Climate Biodiversity


Brico Dépôt France CSR team


O&S and LRQA


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