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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


Our key partners


We continue to work with partners to address human rights and modern slavery risks and participate in forums with the aim of improving standards across the retail sector.


Partner amfori BSCI About A platform for social-related supply chain information. How we’re working together


In addition to using the platform to monitor our site compliance, we have been working with the UK London connect group to discover additional elements of the platform that could benefit our programme, e.g. Country Risk and Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) development.


Better Retail, Better World


A retail sector collaboration led initiative by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals including on human rights and decent work.


British Retail Consortium (BRC) Ethical Working Group


EcoVadis Elevate


A sharing forum for updates on the latest ethical labour developments in the supply chain, including human rights due diligence and modern slavery.


An online assessment programme that provides support to suppliers to improve and assess their sustainability credentials.


A supply chain consultancy specialising in responsible recruitment.


We are working with the BRC utilising the Better Retail, Better World framework to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals.


As a member of the working group, we collaborate with our industry peers and share best practice for human rights due diligence in the retail supply chain.


Used to assess our GNFR suppliers with whom we spend over £75,000.


We have collaborated with this consultancy agent to develop project training materials and deliver online training to suppliers. Some suppliers have independently elected to utilise Elevate as a consultancy to help them address the issues found at their sites.


Hestia Impactt


A charity that supports adults and children in times of crisis. Hestia is the largest provider of modern slavery support in London and the southeast.


A consultancy that helps businesses improve labour rights in their supply chains. They offer diagnostics, solutions and insights to create better jobs and more profitable operations.


Maplecroft Sedex


A global risk intelligence company providing insight into sustainability, resilience and ESG issues.


A platform providing a service package to identify, manage and assess social and environmental supply chain data, which also owns the SMETA audit methodology.


On Human Rights Day 2024 Hestia ran a session with around 250 people from Group functions on understanding the hidden crime of modern slavery.


We partnered with them to develop and deliver the ‘Salient audit issues in Turkey’ training.


Provides data for our ethical audit risk matrix.


We collaborate with Sedex to gain a better understanding of their latest requirements, how to integrate them into Kingfisher’s ethical requirements, and assist our suppliers in meeting these requirements.


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