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Kingfisher Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement 2024/25


Introduction


Suppliers & customer offer


Governance


Policies


Risk assessment


Working with suppliers GFR


Partnership and collaboration


To develop and implement our programmes, and tackle wider challenges for our sector, we work with human rights and modern slavery experts, industry organisations, trade unions, peer companies, government agencies, multistakeholder initiatives, audit platforms, sustainability assessment tools and NGOs, among others.


Slave-Free Alliance: A key partner on modern slavery We have been working with Slave-Free Alliance (SFA), a social enterprise initiated by anti- slavery charity Hope for Justice, for several years. This year they have helped us develop our policies, train our teams and our suppliers, and strengthen our audit and due diligence approaches. This includes:


GNFR ethical risk matrix We worked with Slave-Free Alliance to create our GNFR ethical risk matrix. This has identified the number of low-, medium- and high-risk suppliers we have in each of our three purchase categories (in terms of spend) and will be used to inform our risk-based approach.


Legislation Horizon Scan Report and Research Slave-Free Alliance conducted in-depth research to identify upcoming legislation which may affect Kingfisher from a human rights perspective.


Child Labour Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Slave-Free Alliance reviewed and advised us on the development of this document which sets out Kingfisher’s position on child labour, expectations of suppliers, how to report incidents of child labour, investigation processes, remediation and the follow-up process. The procedure will be communicated internally, along with relevant training, in 2025.


Training Slave-Free Alliance ran an hour-long ‘lunch and learn’ session for our People team around what modern slavery is and how to spot the signs.


Due diligence reporting Slave-Free Alliance reviewed our Modern Slavery Statement and human rights due diligence reporting to make sure it was in line with legislation.


Working with suppliers GNFR


Going beyond audit


Whistleblowing & escalation


Employee training


Partnership & collaboration


Looking to the future


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