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Kingfisher Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement 2024/25


Introduction


Suppliers & customer offer


Governance


Policies


Risk assessment


Working with suppliers GFR


Looking to the future


Our commitment to address modern slavery risks and uphold the human rights of every individual in our business and supply chain is an ongoing process. We will strive to keep improving our practices and reviewing our priorities.


In the immediate future, we will concentrate on:


Risk mitigation


— Continuing to utilise the outcomes from the Saliency Assessment and Human Rights Gap Analysis.


— Continuing to review the GNFR risk matrix and how this can be utilised to be implemented into our due diligence approach.


Training


— Doing more training to include GNFR, Commercial teams and Buyers, following the success of the modern slavery workshop.


— Continuing to conduct workshops and training for Ethical and Sustainability leads.


Supply chain transparency


— Increasing the transparency within our global supply chains for both GFR and GNFR.


— Expanding the number of GNFR suppliers assessed by EcoVadis and working with our suppliers to increase their scores.


— Making progress on our target to remain and consistently achieve above 95% compliance to policy for both OEB suppliers and production sites.


— Continuing to support our banner Sustainability teams, in driving disclosure of production sites by non-OEB suppliers.


— Expanding our horticulture grower mapping to include all OEB suppliers.


Addressing and reducing the risk of modern slavery


— Continuing to raise awareness internally, working with the Responsible Business network and increasing internal communications.


— Extending the existing communications for Anti-Slavery Day to include teams not working directly with suppliers.


— Rolling out a child labour standard operating procedure, to provide guidelines for Kingfisher Group Companies to follow on the management of situations where underage workers are alleged to exist in production sites.


Beyond audit and supplier capacity building


— Extending our ‘beyond audit’ programmes including:


— gathering worker voice feedback in addition to ethical audits;


— rolling out the Everyone’s Business app;


— distributing a survey to OEB suppliers to understand how our purchasing practices impact workers and working conditions within our supply chain; and


— working with top Screwfix suppliers to conduct a detailed review of their production sites and audit findings and being more proactive about closing any open audits.


Upcoming legislation


— The reporting landscape is evolving rapidly, and preparations are being undertaken to ensure we will be ready to meet the requirements of regulations like the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Our focus here is to understand the relevant scope and the due diligence processes required for our business.


Working with suppliers GNFR


Going beyond audit


Whistleblowing & escalation


Employee training


Partnership & collaboration


Looking to the future


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